SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents in rural regions tend to suffer less from stress or depression, while those living in urban areas have lower rates of smoking and obesity, a study showed Sunday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) recently announced in its 2021 Regional Health Statistics report that 24 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s leading tech firm, was the world’s 22nd-largest company in terms of market capitalization, down seven notches from a year earlier, data showed Sunday. According to the list of the global top 100 companies released by London-based accounting company PwC, the tech giant was the [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Thursday it had partnered with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Hyundai Motor Co. to test and verify Level-4 autonomous driving technology in Seoul’s downtown areas. A Level-4 autonomous vehicle means the car can operate almost independently with little intervention or control [...]
BUSAN, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Air Busan Co., a budget carrier unit of Asiana Airlines Inc., is joining hands with local upcycling fashion brand Over Lab to come up with new products made from upcycled materials. The company said Thursday it will begin selling slippers and travel pouches made from seat covers and paragliders [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday opened the Hyundai Motorstudio Senayan Park in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hyundai Motorstudio is a place to publicize Hyundai car brands. The Jakarta studio is the seventh studio after the ones in Seoul, Goyang, Hanam, Busan, Beijing and Moscow. With a floor space of 446 square [...]
PYEONGCHANG, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean “hanwoo” cows have made their first outing this year after spending the winter in a barn. The National Institute of Animal Science’s Korean Cattle Research Institute, located in Daegwallyeong Pass in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, began five-month rotational grazing for some 200 cattle on Wednesday in a 260-hectare pasture. [...]
BUSAN, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The 16th Busan Content Market (BCM), which opened on Wednesday, is hosting a video content festival for pets. The BCM organizing committee announced that it will host the Movie for Dog event at the open square in front of the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (BEXCO) where visitors can try [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners withdrew more money than they injected into South Korea’s stock markets for the fourth straight month in May amid worries over economic slowdowns in major countries and the fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine, central bank data showed Thursday. Net foreign money outflows from the main bourse, [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Household & Health Care Ltd., a major South Korean cosmetics and household goods maker, said Wednesday it will create a honeybee park with an area of 4,700 square meters in Onsan industrial park in Ulsan, where it has its own production facilities. This move is part of efforts [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 in 10 large South Korean companies are allowing their employees to work from home even after the government removed most anti-coronavirus curbs over a month ago, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey of the country’s leading 100 firms by sales, taken by the Korea Enterprises Federation [...]