SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp. said Wednesday it will hold an eco-friendly fundraising event synced to the 2022 League of Legends (LOL) Champions Korea spring playoffs, making donations based on DWG KIA’s performance throughout the championship. It is the country’s first time to see an esports sponsor join in collaboration with a [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in will ride an electric vehicle (EV) after he leaves office. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s tender notice for the purchase (lease) of a vehicle for the use of the soon-to-be former president that was posted on the Public Procurement Service’s Government e-Procurement [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Travel bag sales are on the rise since the government announced a measure on March 11 to exempt vaccinated entrants from abroad from the obligatory one-week self-isolation starting March 21. E-Mart Inc., a discount store chain, reported that sales of travel suitcases and bags jumped by 42.4 percent for [...]
CHUNGJU, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first biogas hydrogen fueling station, which uses food waste to produce and supply hydrogen fuel, opened in Chungju, 147 kilometers south of Seoul, on Wednesday. The Chungju Bio-Hydrogen Refueling Station uses biogas produced at the Chungju Food Bio Energy Center to make highly concentrated, eco-friendly hydrogen with [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Book Repository, South Korea’s first public secondhand bookstore, will perform a variety of commemorative events to celebrate the third anniversary of its opening. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Library, Seoul Book Repository has attracted about 430,000 visitors who bought a total of 333,000 books over the past three [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Tablet PCs and smartphones purchased by small business owners to keep track of customers as part of the country’s quarantine policy have become useless following the government’s recent policy change. South Korea launched a mandatory entry log system using QR code-based registration at entertainment facilities in June 2020 to [...]
DAEJEON, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Forest Service said Monday it will hold a series of online tree planting events on a metaverse platform in celebration of the upcoming Arbor Day on April 5. Anyone can access 2ndblock, a metaverse platform developed by cryptocurrency operator Dunamu, and enter the Second Forest to plant a [...]
YONGIN, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Everland, South Korea’s largest amusement park, plans to introduce a program that will allow users to enjoy a closer look at nocturnal carnivores such as lions, tigers and hyenas. Everland announced that it will start operating the ‘night safari tram’ that will enable users to explore the safari world [...]
JEJU, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju International Airport has seen a higher number of visitors in the pandemic era, despite the shutdown of its international terminal. The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Office analyzed traffic data at the airport, which showed that 4,734,792 people came to or left from Jeju Airport in January and February. [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Franchise coffee chains are introducing seasonal drinks for spring as the weather begins to warm up. Caffe Pascucci introduced three new seasonal drinks that focus on fruity flavors. The drinks mix passion fruit, mango, and pear inside blue mallow or hibiscus tea to create a spring-like hue. Starbucks released [...]