SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — An experiential chamber has been set up in Manhattan, New York in which visitors can try out Korean culture in a virtual reality environment. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Creative Content Agency on Tuesday (local time) held an opening ceremony for the “KOREA: Cubically Imagined” [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Formula E Korea said Wednesday it will host the Seoul E-Prix in Seoul’s Jamsil neighborhood on August 13-14. The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, an annual motor racing championship for electrically powered vehicles, is hosted by the International Automobile Federation (FIA). The championship, dubbed “Formula E,” has been [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) renovated the Biseulsan Mountain Park in Daegu as an “open tourist site” and held a completion ceremony on Wednesday. An open tourist site is a tourist attraction that removes physical barriers on footpaths and is mounted [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it will host the Hyundai N Festival, a racing championship for the carmaker’s high-performance brand N. The festival will host the first round of the series at Inje Speedium in Inje, east of Seoul, from Friday to Sunday. Seven additional races will then take [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, held a picnic day in which the company rented the entire Legoland from Friday to Sunday, inviting 10,000 employees and their family members each day. The event came as part of the company’s welfare package. A grand opening of Legoland, a [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea fell 9.8 percent last month from a year earlier as chip shortages continued to affect vehicle production, an industry association said Wednesday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles fell to 23,070 units last month from 25,578 units a year ago, the [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Global tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. retained the No. 1 spot on the list of South Korea’s top 500 firms by sales, with 39 businesses newly making the list, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Samsung Electronics, the flagship unit of South Korea’s leading family-controlled conglomerate Samsung Group, remained the [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Dongdaemun District Office in Seoul has announced the introduction of a ‘wearable cam’ to protect public servants in charge of civil affairs from malicious petitioners’ abusive language and violence. Wearable cams are wearable video recording devices that are used to record on-site situations by police officers and firefighters. [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of people are looking for suits for work and cameras for outdoor picnics ever since the social distancing measures were lifted last month. Kolon Industries Inc., South Korea’s top textile and chemical materials maker, reported a 64 percent increase in sales of shoulder bags, normally used [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Greenpeace on Monday set up a large prop depicting a forest fire in front of the COEX convention center in Seoul, where the opening ceremony for the 15th World Forestry Congress took place, urging attendees to stop forest destruction. The international environmental group set up two props carrying the [...]