JEJU, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sculptures symbolizing Jeju Island have been set up along the Camino de Santiago, Spain’s most popular trekking course. Officials from the Jeju provincial government and public figures from Spain’s Galicia region held a ceremony at Monte do Gozo on Tuesday (local time) to celebrate the new sculptures. South Korea [...]
INCHEON, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A beautiful event is going viral in which a group of citizens voluntarily worked together to remove liquor bottles that fell on the road from a truck. Last Monday afternoon, dozens of soju (distilled liquor) boxes loaded in a 1-ton truck fell on the road when the truck turned [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean girl group BLACKPINK will hold K-pop’s first “in-game concert” on the mobile version of the mega-hit game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG), its management agency said Tuesday. YG Entertainment revealed a poster titled BLACKPINK x PUBG Mobile 2022 In-game Concert : The Virtual on the quartet’s official social media [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co. is coming up with various ideas to provide new experiences to customers. The company said Tuesday it will set up an LED display on the outer wall of a local gas station in Seoul’s Dongjak District to exhibit digital artwork. For July, some [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it had launched Samsung Space Tycoon, an experience-type virtual space, on the metaverse platform Roblox. Samsung Space Tycoon is a cyberspace using a management simulation game (tycoon) format, allowing users to produce and enjoy Samsung products and items in the universe. Under the background [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday it is currently running a driving rehabilitation program for persons with disabilities as part of its creating shared value (CSV) project for sustainable management. The carmaker developed a virtual driving simulator jointly with the Citizens’ Coalition for Safety and Inno Simulation for the program. [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service that predicts traffic jams on major roads in Seoul will begin later this year. The Seoul Facilities Corp. said it will begin a big data-based traffic jam prediction system in November. The prediction system will cover eight major roads including the Gangbyeon Northern Highway, Olympic-daero and 12 other major [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Monday it will introduce a rapid inspection system to address the blind spot in the inspection of residue pesticides that occurs during the distribution process of the fast-growing dawn delivery agricultural product market. The inspection of the safety of agricultural products, [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Tropical nights, during which the temperature stays above 25 degrees Celsius at night, are becoming more severe in Seoul and nearby areas, a study showed Sunday. A research team from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology analyzed daily low temperature data from 1979 to 2018, which showed [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean embassy in Mexico has donated three pieces of medical equipment valued at US$76,000 to the Korea-Mexico friendship hospital located in Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. The donation includes mobile ultrasonic diagnosis equipment, a mobile X-ray scanner and a video electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring device. [...]