SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s recent campaign to encourage dog owners to donate animal blood ended in success. Hyundai, Konkuk University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital and the Korean Canine Blood Donor Association held a series of ‘I’M DOgNOR’ campaigns in 2019 and 2020. ‘DOgNOR’ is a combination of the words ‘dog’ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Monday that it will start an official development assistance (ODA) project that will establish a shellfish farm in Northern Vietnam and transfer relevant technology. The Korea Forest Service plans to utilize a 330-hectare mangrove forest that is being established in Vietnam as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Instant noodles captured the top spot in production among food products in South Korea in 2020 on a surge in exports amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The output of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, stood at 1.93 million tons in 2020, up a whopping 231 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving robots will start patrolling Children’s Grand Park and the Songpa Trail in Seoul from Monday, the city government said. The robots with a height of about 108 centimeters will patrol for the prevention of crimes and disease control throughout the park. While patrolling the park and the Songpa [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As the country begins to encourage home treatment for COVID-19, demand for cough medication and fever reducers are on the rise as more people are flocking to drug stores to stock medicine at home. Dong-A Pharmaceutical Co. reported that stocks of Panpyrin cold medication are rapidly emptying out at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The booming K-pop market has led to a significant sales boost of related products. Sales of cheering props, however, have dwindled due to the ongoing pandemic. Ktown4u.com, an online shopping mall that specializes in sales of CDs of K-pop groups and their related goods, reported that sales of drama [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force marked its first anniversary last Thursday. So far, the task force has distributed 120 million vaccines, covering a distance of more than 9 million kilometers across the country in the process. The task force has deployed 52,000 military and police vehicles, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The average monthly salary of wage earners rose 3.6 percent on-year in 2020 from a year earlier despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a government report showed Monday. South Korean wage workers earned a monthly average of 3.2 million won (US$2,669) in December 2020, up from 3.09 million won a year [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of 10 South Koreans are positive about the relaxation of COVID-19 curbs on businesses, a poll showed Monday. In the survey by the Korea Society Opinion Institute, 62.1 percent said the government should enhance the protection of severely ill patients and those with underlying conditions while easing [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s bestselling domestic car over the last 10 years was Hyundai Motor Co.’s Grandeur sedan and the country’s bestselling imported car was the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan, industry data showed Thursday. CarIsYou Data Research Center reported that there were 1,010,681 units of Hyundai Grandeur registered between Jan. 2012 and [...]