SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of wine is encouraging convenience stores to release new products in the new year, bolstering their marketing offensive. Emart24 sold 3.05 million bottles of wine last year, including a record-breaking 750,000 in December alone. The convenience store chain plans to open up to 4,000 stores specializing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain CU has teamed up with rental service startup Aroundable to launch the “Pick and Pick” rent service at five stores. Users will be able to rent about 300 items in 11 categories, including gaming consoles, beauty devices, camping equipment and sporting goods. The minimum rental period [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — India, once a formidable market where Korean multimedia could not survive, is gaining interest in the Korean language. The Korean Cultural Centre India said that the online registration for the 81st Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) I, which opened in India at 9 a.m. on Monday last week, [...]
UIJEONGBU, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi provincial government said Wednesday that it will introduce a tagless bus fare payment system that allows passengers to pay their bus fare without having to scan their transportation card. Passengers can install the Tagless Pay app on their smartphone and register their prepaid or deferred transportation card to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a state-run Korean language education foundation, has announced plans to develop and distribute braille and sound books for foreigners with visual disabilities to learn the language. The braille book was made using a mixture of braille and mute letters, aimed at making it accessible [...]
JEJU, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The tourism industry in South Korea’s southern island of Jeju, maligned by the COVID-19 pandemic, is being bolstered by sports teams visiting the island for off-season training. Jeju is more suitable for winter training thanks to its warm weather and advanced facilities. In January, some 2,400 members of 76 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Geumcheon district office said Tuesday that it will introduce artificial intelligence (AI) technology to keep traffic in back alleys safe. The district has set up ‘safety smartboards’ at two road entrances that lead to a children’s safety zone. The smartboards use a radar-based speed warning system to offer [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean defector crossed the border last week to return home last week, raising questions over why some defectors return to North after defecting to South Korea. According to the Ministry of Unification, the number of defectors who returned to North Korea after defecting to the South totaled [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey showed that foreigners worldwide are deeply interested in traveling to Seoul. The Seoul Tourism Organization conducted a survey of 9,181 foreigners from seven regions across the world, 91.9 percent of whom said they wanted to travel to Seoul when foreign travel opens up. Among Korean respondents, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a state-run Korean language education foundation, said Monday that it had conducted online courses on Korean culture at 16 middle and high schools and universities in Vietnam that include the Korean language in their primary foreign language curricula. The foundation offered the online courses [...]