SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee shops will now be able to recycle coffee grounds through more lenient requirements and procedures. The Ministry of Environment announced that it will designate coffee grounds as a ‘circulation resource’ starting on Tuesday. With the increasing amount of coffee consumption in South Korea, the volume of coffee grounds [...]
YONGIN, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Everland amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, is set to screen K-pop supergroup BTS’ multimedia show on its outdoor stage. Samsung C&T Corp., which operates Everland, said Monday that the multimedia show “Over the Universe” will be aired at the amusement park for 15 minutes before closing [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent massive die-off of bees at South Korean beekeeping farms has been attributed to bee mites and hornets, as well as abnormal weather conditions, a study has found. The Rural Development Administration conducted a survey of 99 beekeeping farms across the country that have been hurt by the [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment has joined hands with T Map Mobility and Kakao Mobility to introduce a QR-code payment system at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on Monday. Previously, EV charging stations only accepted credit cards or other membership cards for payment. With the new payment system, users scan [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean cultural center in Berlin, Germany has opened an online website that teaches Germans about gukak or Korean traditional music. In joint collaboration with Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, the website was opened in the German language, offering an introduction to traditional Korean music. The website, available [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will go through his inauguration along with his seven presidential pets. Yoon and his wife have been raising four dogs and three cats at their residence in Seoul’s Seocho District. The couple had no children and have been taking care of the seven pets as a [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Whisky is replacing wine as a liquor popular among South Korea’s younger generation. GS25, the convenience store chain run by GS Retail Co., said that whisky sales jumped by 46.8 percent between 2019 and 2020, and 60.8 percent between 2020 and 2021. Between 2021 and February of this year, [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, the number of South Koreans who buy more than 100 books a year is increasing. According to Kyobo Book Center, South Korea’s biggest bookstore chain, the number of readers who bought more than 100 books last year was up by 9.5 percent compared [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Election day in South Korea was marked by a plethora of red voting stamps on social media. As soon as polls opened in the presidential election on Wednesday, voters shared photos on Instagram, Facebook and other online communities to show that they had voted. Many of them took photos [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean film industry is bolstering efforts to prevent animal abuse on movie sets following a recent case where an animal died while shooting the KBS drama series “The King of Tears, Lee Bang-won.” The Korean Film Producers Association said it had received a letter from the People [...]