CHUNCHEON, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hoarfrost covered the Soyang River in Chuncheon, 85 kilometers northeast of Seoul, following a cold snap of -15 degrees Celsius that swept through Gangwon Province on Sunday morning, When the cold meets the right humidity and wind, the mist from the river freezes on top of tree branches, blooming [...]
GIMHAE, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Christmas tree made of books greeted visitors at Jangyu Library in the southeastern city of Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province on Friday. Library staff stacked up discarded books to create a Christmas tree. Around 10,000 of the 188,000 books owned by the library were to be scrapped this year. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Seok-yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee on Saturday adopted one more guide dog that recently retired from the Samsung Guide Dog School in Yongin, south of Seoul. The retired guide dog, named Saeromi, is a female labrador retriever born in Dec. 2013. She served as a guide [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Cumulative imported vehicle registrations in South Korea have exceeded 3 million units, as a growing number of customers purchase foreign brands instead of local ones, government data showed Sunday. The number of imported car registrations had reached 3.17 million, or 12 percent of the country’s overall car registrations of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-employed people’s debts increased 5.8 percent in 2021 from a year earlier amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Friday. Loans extended by financial institutions to the self-employed averaged 178 million won (US$138,000) as of end-2021, up 9.75 million won from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of South Korea’s service industry increased 10.5 percent on-year in 2021 on the back of leisure and communication businesses, data showed Friday. Service sector sales came to 2,814 trillion won (US$2.2 trillion) last year, compared with 2,547 trillion won tallied in 2020, the data compiled by Statistics Korea [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Cigarette packs in South Korea will feature new warning images as of Friday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that new warning images unveiled in June have been implemented for the next 24 months, following a probation period. The 12 warning images for 10 non-electronic cigarettes and two [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An abandoned dog had not forgotten about South Korean singer Lee Hyo-ri, who temporarily took care of the dog in the past. The recently aired first episode of tvN’s reality show “Canada Check-in” introduced the former member of K-pop girl group Fin.K.L going on a 12-day trip to Canada [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it had selected Viva Magenta as a new color option for its Dios Objet Collection MoodUp, a refrigerator that enables users to change the color of the appliance via a smartphone app. Customers will be able to add Viva Magenta to color options for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving electric buses similar in size to public city buses deployed as shuttle buses around the former presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, starting Thursday. Hyundai Motor Co.’s Elec City, the carmaker’s first mass-production electric bus, has been renovated into an autonomous bus. The buses will cover a [...]