SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min, who has been residing in South Korea since late May, has begun training for the upcoming season. Online communities have posted photos of the captain of South Korea’s national football team jogging along the bike path in the Han River Park despite the scorching [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean logistics giant CJ Logistics Corp. said Monday it had successfully delivered nine T-50B supersonic trainer jets from an air base in nearby Wonju to London to participate in an international air show. The T-50B, the aerobatic aircraft of the South Korean Air Force’s aerobatic flight team, the [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will host the Neo QLED 8K Big Picture in FOR:REST exhibition at its 70 Samsung Digital Plaza outlets across the country until Aug. 31. This exhibition, a follow-up version of the exhibition held at at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The retail industry in South Korea is booming in this year’s monsoon season, which has particularly been windy and rainy. E-commerce platform Gmarket has seen a 94-percent increase in umbrella sales in Jeju during the monsoon season between June 20 and 29, compared to last year. Sales of umbrellas [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Female soldiers from the Army’s Special Warfare Command won a gold medal in the 4-Way Formation Skydiving category at the 45th World Military Parachuting Championship held in Güssing, Austria. It is the first time for a South Korean team to win a medal at the championship in the last [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has introduced a new service that allows users to play streaming games on a smart TV without a separate game console. The global tech behemoth announced the launch of the Samsung Gaming Hub, a streaming platform synchronization service available on smart TVs and monitors released in [...]
BUSAN, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 8 in 10 sea turtles living on the coast of South Korea have consumed plastic, a study showed Thursday. A research team from the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, jointly with the National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea and the National Institute of Ecology, conducted [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The act of obstructing charging activities for electric vehicles will be punishable by fines in all 25 districts in Seoul starting in August. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that the number of districts penalizing the obstruction of EV charging activities will increase from the current 12 to 19 [...]
CHUNCHEON, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Legoland Korea Resort, located in Chuncheon, 85 kilometers northeast of Seoul, said Thursday it has launched the operation of Asia’s first Lego Factory Adventure Ride. The Lego Factory Adventure Ride is an indoor ride taking you into a magical Lego factory. Riders can fully experience the virtual process of [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Washington D.C. introduced “Kimchi Day,” which stipulates that kimchi originates in South Korea. The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. announced that the D.C. Council had passed a resolution for the designation of Kimchi Day by consensus on Tuesday (local time). Kimchi Day, set on Nov. 22, was first [...]