SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly Secretariat announced Wednesday the deployal of an artificial intelligence (AI) robot that provides guide tours and answers questions. The self-driven robot, dubbed “QI,” offers commentary about the National Assembly in four languages — Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese. A six-week trial ended successfully, and the robot [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added jobs for the 21st straight month in November, but the growth continued to slow for the sixth month in a row amid the central bank’s aggressive monetary tightening, government data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people stood at 28.4 million last month, up some 626,000 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Large companies in South Korea have seen their combined free cash flow (FCF) plunge nearly 80 percent over the past year amid concerns over a liquidity crunch stemming from high interest rates, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The total FCF of 268 out of the country’s top 500 listed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are growing frustrated with the rapidly increasing cost of heating their homes. Home heating costs jumped from 65.23 won per Mcal in March to 89.88 won last month, an increase of 37.8 percent in just eight months, according to the state-run Korea District Heating Corp. Citizens are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Son Heung-min, captain of the South Korean men’s national football team, was presented with a limited-edition smartphone by Samsung Electronics Co. Son, a well-known iPhone user, posted on Instagram photos of the Galaxy Z Flip 4 Maison Margiela Edition that Samsung gave him as a gift. The photo included [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food producer Pulmuone Co. said Tuesday it will begin supplying products to 18 campuses in the U.S., including the University of Massachusetts and the University of California, after signing a contract to provide plant-based food. Pulmuone’s local affiliate, Pulmuone Foods USA, Inc., first jumped into the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez thanked the South Korean government for building an emergency hospital ward in the country as part of its official development assistance (ODA) efforts, the Seoul’s overseas aid agency said Monday. President Benítez on Friday (local time) participated in the opening ceremony for the new [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone brand Galaxy has been chosen as South Korea’s best brand for the 12th consecutive year, a survey showed Monday. The Galaxy phone earned a brand index reading of 937.6 points out of a possible 1,000 points, according to the survey by Brandstock, a South Korean [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 55 percent of South Koreans believe the COVID-19 pandemic will become a perpetual phenomenon, a survey showed Tuesday. Only 18.7 percent of South Koreans were confident that the COVID-19 pandemic will end at some point, according to the survey released by Statistics Korea. The survey was carried out [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce company Interpark Corp. said Tuesday its sales of plane tickets more than tripled in November from a year earlier on the back of pent-up demand for travel. Interpark said sales of plane tickets booked on its website amounted to 121.2 billion won (US$92.8 million) in November, [...]