SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government held the so-called space-out contest on Sunday after a three-year hiatus resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. On a hot and sunny afternoon, many Seoul citizens gathered around Jamsu Bridge, where the competition was being held. Among 3,800 people who applied to participate in the competition, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An influential American consumer magazine listed a number of TVs made by LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. on the Best Big-Screen TV list. U.S. Consumer Reports recommended 11 TVs with a 70-inch screen or larger, sorting them into categories of ‘top-performing’, ‘mid-priced’ and ‘lower-priced’ based on the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group reached a double-digit market share in the auto market in Britain for the first time in 40 years. In the January-August period, Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate Kia Corp.’s market share in Britain marks at 12.3 percent, up by 3.4 percentage points [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 60 percent of South Koreans agree with replacing BTS’ mandatory military service with other alternatives, a poll showed Sunday. Innertech Systems, a local polling agency, conducted a nationwide survey of 3,004 men and women above 18 years of age, of which 59.8 percent agreed that the K-pop [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday it has been selected for the 2021 Targeted Airshed Grants provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and it will be supplying hydrogen-powered trucks for the program. The TAG was first initiated by the EPA in 2015. It is a funding [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Galleries Association of Busan said Thursday it will host the 2022 Busan Annual Market of Art at the Grand Josun Busan in the southeastern city from Sept. 22-25. Held for the second time since last year, the art fair will showcase some 1,000 pieces of art from 60 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport has become the Airport Council International (ACI)’s first Level 5 customer experience accredited airport, the state-run operator of the airport said Thursday. The Incheon International Airport Corp. was awarded the highest level of accreditation in the ACI Customer Experience program at the global summit held by the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday that the Fun Mode included on Galaxy A-series smartphones has been used more than 2.5 billion times worldwide since it was released a year ago. Fun Mode adds augmented reality (AR) lens technology developed by Snap, a camera application developer, to the Galaxy A [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will soon release its 97-inch OLED EVO Gallery Edition, the world’s largest OLED television. The new 97G2 model comes with the largest OLED screen available in the current state of technology with a 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160). It is also equipped with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it had installed its The Terrace outdoor TV at Postojna Cave, a major tourist attractions in Slovenia. Postojna Cave is famous as the habitat of olms, a kind of salamander often referred as ‘baby dragons.’ Samsung displayed the habitat space of olms taken by [...]