SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More people spent time traveling the country or going on hotel vacations during the Lunar New Year holiday, adding to the number of guests staying at major hotels in the country. Hotel Shilla Co. saw its average reservation rate rise by close to 30 percent during the Lunar New [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Army Training Center in the central city of Nonsan is stepping out to revise an all-out ban on smoking for the first time in 27 years to reflect the basic rights of all service members. The boot camp has been undergoing a trial period to allow service [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesia will carry out an irrigation modernization project that uses Korean technology to supply agricultural water to rice paddies. The Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) said Monday that it won an order for the design and supervision of irrigation modernization and emergency renovation work for a total of 143,000 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has rolled out three-dimensional outdoor advertisements in five major cities around the world to promote of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022, which will be held on Wednesday. Samsung’s ‘Tiger in the City’ ad has been put up in New York City’s Times Square, the Piccadilly [...]
GYEONGJU, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Growing subtropical fruits is gaining popularity in Gyeongju, 371 kilometers southeast of Seoul famous for its fertile land and ample sunlight. A leading region for tomato farming, the city has begun growing tangerines, fruits that used to grow in the southern regions, since the early 2010s. Now, the tangerines [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms are stepping up to allow employees to read more books by offering subsidies for buying books or opening up company libraries. Kyung Kye-hyun, CEO of Samsung Electronics Co.’s device solutions division, began offering coupons to thousands of management employees that give unlimited access to e-books. Kyung, himself [...]
YANGJU, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — 104 hours and 30 minutes. That’s how long it took to locate all three workers buried under 300,000 square meters of land at a quarry in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province on Jan. 29. Tragically, the three workers were found dead. The quarry collapsed on the first day of the Lunar [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that the number of people who used the free suit rental service for job seekers reached a record high last year. Used by 4,032 people in 2016 when it was first introduced, the rental service was used by 39,547 people last year, up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro’s transport revenues have fallen for two consecutive years due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The operator of the city’s vast subway system said Thursday its transport revenues stood at 1.15 trillion won (US$961 million) last year, down 3.27 percent from a year ago, following a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The market for decaffeinated coffee is expanding as the pandemic has prompted consumers to drink more coffee while gaining interest in health. The Korea Customs Service reported that imports of decaffeinated coffee beans jumped from 3,712 tons in 2020 to 4,737 tons in 2021, an increase of 27.5 percent. [...]