SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hydrogen buses produced by Hyundai Motor Co. have been introduced as public city buses in Vienna, Austria. Hyundai said Sunday that the company’s Elec City hydrogen bus has been introduced by Wiener Linien, an Austrian public transportation company, as a public bus in the Austrian capital. It is the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans who recently entered the Chinese city of Shanghai managed to convince local authorities to allow them to vote in the upcoming presidential election. The Chinese government requires foreigners entering the country to quarantine at hotels and other designated locations for a minimum of two weeks to prevent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is struggling to meet demand for its flagship Galaxy S22 smartphones after its release on Friday. 300,000 new Galaxy S22 phones were sold on the first day of the early-bird registrations on Wednesday, setting a new record, industry sources said. Many pre-order customers, however, have been [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp. (KOMSCO) said Thursday it will begin selling the Park Hang-seo commemorative medal, released in South Korea last year, in Vietnam as well. The medal celebrating Park, the South Korean head coach of the Vietnamese men’s national football team, depicts [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has revised a law to enable rapid diagnosis of aquatic life disease through simple test kits. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on Thursday announced advance legislation notice for the revision of the Aquatic Life Disease Control Act. The act was revised to strengthen the diagnosis and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The environment ministry said Wednesday it has signed an agreement with 10 public wildlife rescue centers to protect abandoned foreign animals. The agreement focuses on protecting abandoned foreign animals including raccoons, meerkats, foxes and prairie dogs. Based on the agreement, the ministry and regional governments will provide administrative and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Fancy’ is expected to be the new keyword for women’s clothes in this year’s spring-summer season. Samsung C&T Corp.’s fashion group picked Y2K fashion as this year’s spotlight fashion trend. Y2K fashion refers to a fashion trend that used to be popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners studying for a doctoral degree in South Korea last year shot up thanks to the popularity of Korean culture abroad and domestic universities’ efforts to attract foreign students, a government survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person travel is becoming increasingly popular. According to the Korea Tourism Organization, an analysis of BC Card Co.’s credit card transaction data showed that travel consumption by single-person households accounted for 14.6 percent of all tourism-related consumption in the country last year, up by 5.5 percentage points from the [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean-style forest park will be set up near Angkor Wat Buddhist temple complex, Cambodia’s most famous tourist destination, using South Korean forest management technology. The Korea Forest Service held the first plenary session for the Korea-Cambodia joint operating committee online on Tuesday. The park will be set up [...]