SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Expensive, high-end bottles of soju that cost more than 10,000 won (US$8.15) are gaining popularity at home. An ordinary bottle of Soju, a Korean distilled beverage made from grain, costs about 1,800 won. Won Spirits Co., a soju brewery founded by singer Jay Park in April, announced that all [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Female workers account for nearly a quarter of all employees with major South Korean companies, with their pay amounting to nearly 70 percent of that for male counterparts, data showed Monday. The country’s 150 key companies hired about 199,700 women workers as of end-2020, or 24 percent of their [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cultural Corps of Korean Buddhism plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Buddhist temple stay program by expanding the scope of the program and launching other projects. According to the corps, South Korea’s temple stay program began at 33 temples across the country following the 2002 FIFA [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea fell 13 percent in February from a year earlier as chip shortages continued to disrupt vehicle production, an industry association said Friday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles fell to 19,454 units last month from 22,290 units a year ago, the [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it has launched a new indoor gardening appliance that allows users to grow plants on top of dining tables. LG tiiun mounted with seed kits, allows users to grow plants simply by inserting water and nutrients and turning on the light. Since it has [...]
YEONGDONG, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new experience facility for the harvest of bananas and pineapples will be established in Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province. The Yeongdong county office said Thursday that it will transform the World Fruit Garden into an experience facility by the end of this year. The World Fruit Garden lost its [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Wednesday it has donated all proceeds from the 2022 ‘Firefighters Calendar for Hope,’ along with extra donations, to the Hallym Burn Foundation. The agency raised a total of 107 million won (US$88,900) from calendar sales, donations from private companies and joint [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Wednesday it had selected the winner of the MMCA Gwacheon Project 2022: Rooftop Garden. The project was launched by the museum last year to collaborate with artists to turn various spaces around the MMCA’s Gwacheon branch into experiential chambers [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose 11.5 percent in January from a year earlier, with the proportion of transactions via mobile devices reaching a record high, amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 16.54 trillion won (US$13.74 billion) in January, [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly seven in 10 South Koreans saw their income fall in the wake of COVID-19, a survey showed Thursday. In the online survey of 2,016 people aged 18 or above by the Korea Institute of Public Administration from Nov. 15-22, 68 percent said their average monthly income was lower [...]