SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it has launched a new indoor gardening appliance that allows users to grow plants on top of dining tables. LG tiiun mounted with seed kits, allows users to grow plants simply by inserting water and nutrients and turning on the light. Since it has [...]
YEONGDONG, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new experience facility for the harvest of bananas and pineapples will be established in Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province. The Yeongdong county office said Thursday that it will transform the World Fruit Garden into an experience facility by the end of this year. The World Fruit Garden lost its [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Wednesday it has donated all proceeds from the 2022 ‘Firefighters Calendar for Hope,’ along with extra donations, to the Hallym Burn Foundation. The agency raised a total of 107 million won (US$88,900) from calendar sales, donations from private companies and joint [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Wednesday it had selected the winner of the MMCA Gwacheon Project 2022: Rooftop Garden. The project was launched by the museum last year to collaborate with artists to turn various spaces around the MMCA’s Gwacheon branch into experiential chambers [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital said Wednesday it had provided Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, with medical information and advice concerning COVID-19 self-test and at-home treatment. On the basis of the information SNU Hospital offered, Kakao established a ‘COVID-19 self-test chatbot’ offered via [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In commemoration of the 103rd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement, historical sites have been rebuilt on metaverse platforms to commemorate the 1919 nationwide uprising against Japan’s colonial rule. Seodaemun Prison History Hall, a former colonial prison in central Seoul, released a virtual map on metaverse platform Zepeto [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it had set up six ‘smart poles’ throughout the city that are capable of charging electric vehicles (EVs) and drones. The smart poles are state-of-the-art urban infrastructure that combine various functions needed to operate a city, including street lamps, traffic lights, as [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of daily active users (DAU) for U.S.-based Roblox, a platform of user-created games and a metaverse leader, shot up to a one-year high this month in South Korea. According to the data by mobile big data platform IGAWorks, Roblox saw its DAU reach 422,378 in the February [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has provided scientific proof that reckless overfishing was the main cause behind the extinction of sea lions on South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. According to a study conducted at Pusan National University, the number of sea lions was estimated to have plunged to 8,500, less [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The small Mexican town of Taxco, three hours away by car from Mexico City, has set up a ‘Little Korea’ in the downtown square. The 7th Korean Cultural Festival, hosted by the Korean Cultural Center in Mexico, began on Friday. The three-day festival is offering photo exhibitions on Korean [...]