SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and Konkuk University announced Thursday the opening of Asia’s first canine blood donation center near the university’s veterinary medical teaching hospital. The clinic was set up to resolve the issue of so-called blood supply dogs that are born and raised solely for the purpose of supplying [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Facebook, the U.S. social media network operated by Meta Platforms Inc., has seen an over 25 percent decline in the number of monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea across the past two years, an industry analysis report showed Friday. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The central administrative city of Sejong plans to convert all two-wheeled delivery vehicles in service into fully electric models. On Thursday, the city government signed a business agreement with two-wheeled sales and rental firm Bike Bank and delivery service platform Logiall. The city government plans to convert about 1,000 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Army has banned soldiers from wearing military uniforms to take “body profile,” the Korean term for professional body photo shoot that involve unbuttoning the shirt or taking off the top entirely to expose the body. The Army headquarters recently sent out instructions to all units prohibiting service [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean flag will be hung in front of the Charging Bull statue on Wall Street in New York for an entire week. The Asian American Youth Council (AAYC) hosted a South Korean flag at Bowling Green Park in Manhattan on Tuesday (local time) to mark the occasion [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Household income rose at the fastest pace on record in the second quarter due largely to pandemic-related cash handouts, but households’ propensity to consume hit a record low amid high inflation, data showed Thursday. The average household earned 4.83 million won (US$ 3,700) per month in the January-June period, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Kolon Group, a mid-sized business conglomerate focused on the chemical and textile businesses, said Wednesday it had succeeded in recycling one-off masks that are wasted after a single use through an in-house campaign. The group installed one-off mask collection boxes at seven major workplaces across the country and provided [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean film industry saw its monthly sales soar nearly 150 percent on-year in July on the back of several box-office hits, data showed Wednesday. The industry’s total revenue amounted to 170.4 billion won (US$130.2 million) last month, up 149.4 percent from 68.3 billion won a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than two-thirds of South Koreans regard smartphones as an essential part of their everyday lives, a poll showed Tuesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute conducted a survey of 6,834 South Korean men and women over 13 years of age from 4,236 households, which showed that 70.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean carmaker Kia Corp. has topped brand sales charts in the Netherlands, led by the popularity of the company’s electric vehicles (EVs) as well as its Sportage SUV. The RAI Automotive Industry NL’s monthly statistics of automobile registration showed that Kia sold 2,954 units of cars in the [...]