SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Birds indigenous to China are being found in South Korea, largely due to climate change, a study showed Sunday. A thesis published in the recent edition of the Korean Journal of Phycology reported that two silver-throated tits were discovered on Socheong Island in Incheon in March of last year. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s resorts and hotels are scrambling to attract so-called “petfam” guests with pets. Petfam (pet+family) refers a family that treats pets as a family. The Kensington Resort Chungju, which became a pet-friendly resort facility in December 2020, has been visited by 50,000 people ever since, who brought 65,000 [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A marathon with rather a rather unusual rule requiring participants to run shirtless in the cold winter weather has attracted significant attention. On Saturday, some 500 people participated in an annual “naked marathon race” in Daegwallyeong Pass in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province. When the runners set off at 11 a.m., [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of unmanned stores including selfie shops, and specialized stores like taphouses dramatically increased last year, a credit card issuer said Thursday. KB Kookmin Card Corp., a unit of South Korea’s banking giant KB Financial Group Inc., analyzed credit and debit card transaction data from its cardholders, which [...]
JINAN, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Inverted icicles have formed in pools of freshly drawn water at Tapsa Temple in Mount Mai, located in the southwestern county of Jinan, North Jeolla Province. The mountain’s overall temperature dropped to minus 17 Celsius on Wednesday evening, creating reverse icicles in the pool. Icicles normally point downward. These [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have made a breakthrough in the field of robotics, unveiling on Thursday a four-legged robot called Raibo that can walk quickly even on challenging terrain like sandy beaches. The research team developed technology that models [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The recovery of the market for overseas travel last year was largely led by millennials and Generation Z, a South Korean travel agency said Wednesday. Hana Tour analyzed its international travel booking patterns, sorted by age group, which showed that travelers in their 20s and 30s accounted for 30 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Department store chains and cosmetics firms are holding various makeup shows to attract customers as the indoor mask mandate soon to be lifted. Lotte Department Store announced that it will open up a pop-up store for Yves-Saint Laurent Beauty at its main branch in central Seoul until Sunday. On [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Less than 3 out of 10 South Koreans eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables every day, a public health agency said. According to statistics from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency based on the 2021 national health nutrition survey, 25.5 percent of Koreans over 6 years [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of basketball merchandise have surged ever since “The First Slam Dunk,” a Japanese animated film based on the cartoon popular in the 1990s, hit the theaters. South Korean online shopping mall SSG.com saw its basketball-related sales from Jan. 11-18 jumped by 26 percent from last year for the [...]