SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Oilbank Co. will launch a sales brokerage service for micro electric vehicles for the first time among South Korean oil refiners. The company announced on Monday that it formed a partnership with local micro EV manufacturer Cevo Mobility to display and sell the micro EV Cevo C at [...]
JEJU, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeju International Tourism Marathon was held in a full-fledged manner on Sunday after being suspended for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 3,500 people participated in the event, competing at the Gujwa Sports Complex and the coastal road on the southern resort island of Jeju. The [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. announced Sunday the unveiling of an artwork designed with the LG Signature OLED R TV at Art Basel 2022 held in Basel, Switzerland. Art Basel, which opened on Thursday, features the works of some 300 galleries from 40 countries. Anish Kapoor, a famous sculptor and artist, [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A tombstone has been set up in memory of Internet Explorer, the once ubiquitous web browser that was recently shut down by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. A local online community posted a feed titled “Remembering its legacy” on Wednesday, in which a photo showed an actual tombstone set [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd., a maker of sanitary products in South Korea, said Thursday it will be receiving applications for a “sleeping contest” until June 30. The contest, commemorating its seventh year, is held in a city forest as a chance to “recover” from the lack of sleep rampant in modern [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oldest apartment building in Seoul will be demolished. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that such a plan was resolved at the meeting of the urban planning committee held on Wednesday. The Chungjeong Apartment in Seodaemun District is the nation’s oldest apartment building, and was built in 1937 [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Army’s 35th Infantry Division on Wednesday invited families to a ceremony for the completion of Army recruits’ basic military training, for the first time in two years and five months following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Family members filled in the hall at a boot camp [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced that it will provide a free commentary program in Spanish at Gyeongbok Palace, one of the four royal palaces in Seoul, starting on Friday. Spanish guide programs will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Anyone who wishes [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The New York Mets, a Major League Baseball (MLB) team, unveiled plans to renovate their ballpark on Tuesday (local time), with Samsung Electronics Co. playing a key role. As part of the team’s Samsung Tech Summit event at Citi Field in New York, officials briefed the public about the [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreign YouTuber revealed test results of folding Samsung Electronics Co.’s foldable smartphone Galaxy Z Flip3 thousands of times under harsh conditions. Polish tech YouTuber ‘Mrkeybrd’ carried out a test in which a Galaxy Z Flip3 was folded and opened thousands of times on a live broadcast last week. [...]