SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail industry is enjoying a surge in sales of Halloween-related items ahead of the Halloween weekend. Discount retailer Emart Inc. saw annual sales of Halloween items rise by more than 20 percent every year from October 2019 to October 2021. By generation, the consumer base has expanded [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean language test returned to Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar, after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. A record-breaking 3,064 people took the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) on Sunday at the University of Yangon Hlaing Campus. The test was canceled in 2020 because [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Marine sports such as surfing, scuba diving, yachting and others have gained popularity in recent years, data showed Monday. KB Kookmin Card Co., a credit card arm of KB Financial Group Inc., analized the four-year data of credit card sales related to marine sports, which showed a 140 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 8 out of 10 Seoul citizens are willing to install renewable energy power facilities such as solar panels at home as part of efforts to better cope with climate change, a survey showed Monday. Korea Beyond Coal, a network of environmental and civic groups, conducted a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of people in their 20s and 30s are enjoying tea as their hobby, finding inner peace during the process of brewing tea while discovering new types of satisfaction. On Instagram, there are more than 110,000 hashtags for “tea” in the Korean language and some 70,000 hashtags [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A BTS concert held in the southeastern port city of Busan on Saturday in support of the city’s bid for the 2030 World Expo has gained a lot of attention in the online sphere. An hour prior to the start of the concert, K-pop fan community platform Weverse was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Porsche Korea on Wednesday unveiled the new Taycan 4S Cross Turismo for Jennie Ruby Jane designed with Jennie, a member of South Korean girl group BLACKPINK. A projector located on the side of the vehicle projects a logo of a cloud designed by Jennie herself. The headrest has been [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Property & Development, the operator of South Korea’s tallest skyscraper, announced Thursday that a British military band will hold a performance at the 123-story Lotte World Tower in Seoul on Saturday as part of a South Korea-Britain cultural exchange. The Regimental Band of the Scots Guards is famous [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent scientific reports have described a sharp decline in global vertebrate populations, and South Korea does not appear to be immune to the decline in the diversity of species. According to Choi Chang-yong, a forestry science professor at Seoul National University, the population of swallows plunged from 2,289 per [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cosmetic giant Amorepacific Corp. said Wednesday that it will open up a pop-up exhibition at the storyA exhibition hall in Yongsan District, Seoul until Nov. 13. The exhibition invites visitors to enjoy the beauty of everyday life in the 1980s. The exhibition consists of six zones, each [...]