SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has built food centers for free at elementary schools in Nicaragua hurt by a recent hurricane. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) recently finished the construction of food storage, kitchens and other facilities at eight grade schools in Nicaragua’s Jinotega department and held an opening ceremony at [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Romania continue to engage in cooperation to fight against the pandemic. The South Korean Embassy in Romania said Wednesday it had donated some 600,000 Korean-made COVID-19 test kits to the Romanian government. This follows the European country’s donation of surplus vaccines to South Korea last summer [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The non-fungible token (NFT) artwork realized on LG Display Co.’s transparent OLED screen fetched a huge bid, drawing significant attention. The South Korean display panel maker said Wednesday the NFT art collection “An Important Memory for Humanity” created in collaboration with Refik Anadol, a Turkish media arts designer and director, was [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — An electric vehicle powered by a battery from LG Energy Solution Ltd. set a new Guinness World Record title for the highest altitude achieved by an electric car. The Volkswagen ID.4 GTX succeeded in driving up the dormant Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, reaching an altitude of 5,816 meters on [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that the CJ ENM Virtual Production Stage had opened with the installation of the LED display The Wall. The Virtual Production Stage is a fully-modern studio with the entire stage decorated with large LED screens, thereby enabling a variety of backgrounds to be displayed. [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will release a new model of the LG Room & TV, a dual-purpose product that can be used as smart TV and computer monitor. The new model is easy to install and move since it integrates a 27-inch IPS display with FHD (1,920 [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping spending increased after social distancing rules were lifted. According to the survey conducted jointly by local e-commerce platforms Gmarket and Auction of 5,320 customers, 51 percent of the respondents said their spending increased somewhat in May after social distancing rules were fully lifted, followed by 26 percent [...]
BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Mass Transit Citizen’s Funds Foundation said Monday it will apply a new design introducing the southern port city of Busan’s famous tourist attractions to some of the city’s intra-city buses and subway cars. The Busan Marine Bus and the Metro Marine, both scheduled to be operated until [...]
DAEJEON, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The near ubiquity of kiosks at restaurants and stores nationwide has led to an increasing number of related patents, data showed Sunday. The Korean Intellectual Property Office reported that the number of patents submitted in the last 10 years (2012 to 2021) grew by 16 percent each year. The [...]
DAEGU, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A wall dedicated to BTS member V in Daegu has been extended. Daegu’s Seo District recently added a 25-meter extension to the outer wall of Daeseong Elementary School. V is a graduate of the school. Also known as the ‘V Mural Street’, the wall has tiles decorated with messages [...]