SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday opened the Hyundai Motorstudio Senayan Park in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hyundai Motorstudio is a place to publicize Hyundai car brands. The Jakarta studio is the seventh studio after the ones in Seoul, Goyang, Hanam, Busan, Beijing and Moscow. With a floor space of 446 square [...]
PYEONGCHANG, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean “hanwoo” cows have made their first outing this year after spending the winter in a barn. The National Institute of Animal Science’s Korean Cattle Research Institute, located in Daegwallyeong Pass in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, began five-month rotational grazing for some 200 cattle on Wednesday in a 260-hectare pasture. [...]
BUSAN, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The 16th Busan Content Market (BCM), which opened on Wednesday, is hosting a video content festival for pets. The BCM organizing committee announced that it will host the Movie for Dog event at the open square in front of the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (BEXCO) where visitors can try [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Household & Health Care Ltd., a major South Korean cosmetics and household goods maker, said Wednesday it will create a honeybee park with an area of 4,700 square meters in Onsan industrial park in Ulsan, where it has its own production facilities. This move is part of efforts [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The landmark “Hammering Man” sculpture in Seoul’s central Gwanghwamun has celebrated its 20th birthday. The sculpture was set up in front of the Heungkuk Life Insurance building in Jongno District in 2002 to become Gwanghwamun’s most represented landmark. It is a serial artwork by American sculptor Jonathan Borofsky. The [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Tuesday it will begin a project to develop a new technology that uses Sargassum horneri and other marine plants to produce biodegradable plastic material. The ministry, along with a research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology, plans to develop a [...]
WONJU, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Endangered wild plants will be introduced to mountainous areas in Gangwon Province that have been devastated by limestone mining. The Wonju Regional Environmental Office said Tuesday that a program to introduce endangered wild plants to restore the ecological system of the limestone mining development area will be held again [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s population has fallen below 9.5 million, just six years after it sunk below 10 million, data showed Monday. The Ministry of Interior and Safety said that the population of the capital city stood at 9,496,887 as of late May, The city’s population was above 10.3 million as recently [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite sky-high prices of international plane tickets resulting from higher oil prices and a shortage of international flight routes, sales of high-price seats remain strong. The seat occupancy rates for the Incheon-New York route and the Incheon-Los Angeles route, which maintained first class and business class seats during the [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A large polar bear has appeared on a billboard on the roof of a large building in downtown Seoul. South Korean advertising agency HS Ad produced a polar bear media art billboard video to commemorate World Environment Day, which falls on June 5. The advertisement video, which made use [...]