SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will host the Neo QLED 8K Big Picture in FOR:REST exhibition at its 70 Samsung Digital Plaza outlets across the country until Aug. 31. This exhibition, a follow-up version of the exhibition held at at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The retail industry in South Korea is booming in this year’s monsoon season, which has particularly been windy and rainy. E-commerce platform Gmarket has seen a 94-percent increase in umbrella sales in Jeju during the monsoon season between June 20 and 29, compared to last year. Sales of umbrellas [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Female soldiers from the Army’s Special Warfare Command won a gold medal in the 4-Way Formation Skydiving category at the 45th World Military Parachuting Championship held in Güssing, Austria. It is the first time for a South Korean team to win a medal at the championship in the last [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has introduced a new service that allows users to play streaming games on a smart TV without a separate game console. The global tech behemoth announced the launch of the Samsung Gaming Hub, a streaming platform synchronization service available on smart TVs and monitors released in [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electricity demand touched a fresh all-time high in June as the country was struck by an early heat wave, data showed Monday. The country’s maximum power demand averaged 71,805 megawatts (MW) last month, up 4.3 percent from a year earlier and marking the highest tally for any [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Complaints about unfair operations and the interruption of internal communications within police forces are rampant among police officers in their 20s and 30s, a survey showed Sunday. The Korean National Police University’s Police Science Institute recently conducted a survey of 1,131 newly-appointed police officers. In response to a question [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With more people returning to the office amid easing of social distancing restrictions, instances of workplace harassment have also been on the rise, a survey showed Sunday. According to a poll by Embrain Public, conducted between June 10 and 16 on 1,000 office workers aged 19 or older, 29.6 [...]
BUSAN, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 8 in 10 sea turtles living on the coast of South Korea have consumed plastic, a study showed Thursday. A research team from the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, jointly with the National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea and the National Institute of Ecology, conducted [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The act of obstructing charging activities for electric vehicles will be punishable by fines in all 25 districts in Seoul starting in August. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that the number of districts penalizing the obstruction of EV charging activities will increase from the current 12 to 19 [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea continued to increase in May as the lifting of virus curbs bolstered demand for travel and cultural services and foodstuffs, data showed Friday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 17.3 trillion won (US$13.4 billion) in May, up 10.5 percent from the previous [...]