SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — McDonald’s Korea said Thursday it will adopt the Hi-Pass, an automatic tolling system on major expressways, for its drive-thru (DT) service in South Korea. The Korean unit of the global fast food giant McDonald’s signed a business agreement with Korea Expressway Corp., Shinhan Card Co. and KIS Information & [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group announced the development of a next-generation delivery service robot on the basis of its electrification and self-driving technologies and launched a demonstration of the self-driving robot delivery service. Hyundai said Wednesday that the demonstration will be conducted at two sites, including a residential-commercial complex in Suwon [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean civic group Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) said Wednesday it had launched a website to promote “Jikji,” the world’s oldest existing metal-printed book, in the Italian language. The website provides an introduction to Jikji, South Korea’s cultural heritage, heroes of South Korea, Jikji in school curricula [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly Secretariat announced Wednesday the deployal of an artificial intelligence (AI) robot that provides guide tours and answers questions. The self-driven robot, dubbed “QI,” offers commentary about the National Assembly in four languages — Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese. A six-week trial ended successfully, and the robot [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are growing frustrated with the rapidly increasing cost of heating their homes. Home heating costs jumped from 65.23 won per Mcal in March to 89.88 won last month, an increase of 37.8 percent in just eight months, according to the state-run Korea District Heating Corp. Citizens are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Son Heung-min, captain of the South Korean men’s national football team, was presented with a limited-edition smartphone by Samsung Electronics Co. Son, a well-known iPhone user, posted on Instagram photos of the Galaxy Z Flip 4 Maison Margiela Edition that Samsung gave him as a gift. The photo included [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food producer Pulmuone Co. said Tuesday it will begin supplying products to 18 campuses in the U.S., including the University of Massachusetts and the University of California, after signing a contract to provide plant-based food. Pulmuone’s local affiliate, Pulmuone Foods USA, Inc., first jumped into the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez thanked the South Korean government for building an emergency hospital ward in the country as part of its official development assistance (ODA) efforts, the Seoul’s overseas aid agency said Monday. President Benítez on Friday (local time) participated in the opening ceremony for the new [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone brand Galaxy has been chosen as South Korea’s best brand for the 12th consecutive year, a survey showed Monday. The Galaxy phone earned a brand index reading of 937.6 points out of a possible 1,000 points, according to the survey by Brandstock, a South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With study preferences slowly changing, study cafes are gaining popularity among students. The National Tax Service reported that the number of study rooms and schooling institutions, including study cafes, has been rising since 2017. Reading rooms, however, have been on a constant decrease, except for 2020. Unlike reading rooms [...]