SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Passengers on Korean Air Lines Co. flights will now be able to board airplanes by scanning their palms, instead of producing a boarding pass. The South Korea’s national flag carrier said Tuesday that it will introduce the country’s first ‘Bio Self-boarding Service’ for domestic flights, in which passengers can [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp. on Tuesday rolled out the one-seat Ray minicar that can be used for multiple purposes. The South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker removed the passenger seat from the existing two-seater van model and created a separate loading space therein, expanding the maximum cargo capacity to 1,628 liters. Additional loading [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More people spent time traveling the country or going on hotel vacations during the Lunar New Year holiday, adding to the number of guests staying at major hotels in the country. Hotel Shilla Co. saw its average reservation rate rise by close to 30 percent during the Lunar New [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Army Training Center in the central city of Nonsan is stepping out to revise an all-out ban on smoking for the first time in 27 years to reflect the basic rights of all service members. The boot camp has been undergoing a trial period to allow service [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesia will carry out an irrigation modernization project that uses Korean technology to supply agricultural water to rice paddies. The Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) said Monday that it won an order for the design and supervision of irrigation modernization and emergency renovation work for a total of 143,000 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has rolled out three-dimensional outdoor advertisements in five major cities around the world to promote of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022, which will be held on Wednesday. Samsung’s ‘Tiger in the City’ ad has been put up in New York City’s Times Square, the Piccadilly [...]
GYEONGJU, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Growing subtropical fruits is gaining popularity in Gyeongju, 371 kilometers southeast of Seoul famous for its fertile land and ample sunlight. A leading region for tomato farming, the city has begun growing tangerines, fruits that used to grow in the southern regions, since the early 2010s. Now, the tangerines [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms are stepping up to allow employees to read more books by offering subsidies for buying books or opening up company libraries. Kyung Kye-hyun, CEO of Samsung Electronics Co.’s device solutions division, began offering coupons to thousands of management employees that give unlimited access to e-books. Kyung, himself [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined global market share of three major South Korean battery makers declined last year from a year earlier, due largely to the growth of their Chinese rivals, data showed Monday. The cumulative market share of LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES), SK Innovation Co. and Samsung SDI Co. came [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea fell 22 percent in January from a year earlier as chip shortages continued to disrupt vehicle production, an industry association said Monday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles fell to 17,361 units last month from 22,321 units a year ago, the [...]