SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea National Tuberculosis Association announced Tuesday the release of this year’s Christmas seal starring South Korean football star Son Heung-min. The seal shows Tottenham Hotspur forward playing in a football game. Revenue generated by Christmas seal sales will be used to help tuberculosis patients among vulnerable social groups, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. city of Milpitas in California held its 10th annual celebration of Korean Alphabet Day. The Korean Education Center in San Francisco on Sunday (local time) celebrated the 579th anniversary of the creation of the Korean alphabet, called “hangeul,” with support from Milpitas and the city library. Milpitas [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign direct investment (FDI) pledges to South Korea rose 18.2 percent on-year during the first nine months of this year on the solid growth in investment in such advanced sectors as chips and batteries, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The country received US$21.52 billion worth of FDI commitments during [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will exhibit an artwork made by recycling an OLED TV packaging box at the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria by the end of this year. The artwork was created in collaboration with the African climate change response NGO Solution 17 and a [...]
JEJU, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern resort island of Jeju saw sales of its tourism industry expand more than 32 percent last year from the previous year nearly to pre-pandemic levels, officials said Tuesday. Combined sales of the island’s tourism industry came to an estimated 6.34 trillion won (US$4.43 billion) in 2021, up [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Fashion products made by a South Korean upcycling brand made appearances at a joint fashion show hosted by Tranoi, the official trade fair of Paris Fashion Week, at the Brongniart Palace in Paris last Saturday. ul:kin introduced a bag made with safety nets and other construction materials used in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. hosted the final round of a K-food cooking contest in Los Angeles last week. A panel of judges comprised of six chefs currently running restaurants in Los Angeles and New York have been evaluating the competitors. Finalist Hector De Haro from Glendale [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With the Korean won plunging to record lows against the US dollar, discount store chains are scrambling to find ways to limit price increases for imported food products. Emart Inc. has been following changes in exchange rates in real-time, purchasing imported products with the exporting country’s currency. As a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose 16 percent on-year in August on the back of surging demand for travel during the vacation season amid eased COVID-19 restrictions and growing grocery shopping for preparations for the Chuseok holiday, data showed Tuesday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 17.72 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – President Yoon Suk-yeol’s approval rating fell for the first time in four weeks after his remarks caught on a hot mic in New York caused an uproar here, a survey showed Monday. In the poll of 2,522 voters conducted by Realmeter from Monday to Friday last week, 31.2 percent [...]