SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Charity organizations are moving heaven and earth to find creative solutions to overcome the sharp decline in year-end donations resulting from the prolonged pandemic. The Salvation Army plans to host its first-ever K-pop online concert on Sunday. The organization will give online concert tickets to those who make donations. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop fan club in Thailand visited slums to share end-of-year compassion with the poor. Some 30 members of the BTS and So Ji-sub fan clubs visited Khlong Toei, a downtown slum in Bangkok last Friday. They were the winners of the K-pop cover dance festival held by the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Beef from Korean premium “hanwoo” cattle and wine have swept across large-sized retailers this year. E-Mart Inc., in its sales report from 2019 to November of this year, showed that wine went from ranking 10th in sales last year to sixth this year after seeing a jump in sales [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday that it had been selected as the official sponsor for Citi Field, the home stadium of the New York Mets in Major League Baseball (MLB) and will supply displays and teschnology solutions. Samsung will supply around 1,300 displays including the stadium’s main screen as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Galleria Department Store said Thursday that its luxury hall located in Gangnam District, Seoul surpassed 1 trillion won (US$844 million) in annual sales for the first time since its opening 31 years ago. As of November, the luxury hall has seen a 67 percent rise in jewelry and watches [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will collect coffee grounds from downtown cafes for recycling. The city plans to offer certified marks and other incentives to encourage coffee shops to throw away coffee grounds separately, collect them through district offices and send them to a recycling firm. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s biggest carrier, has developed a new solution that uses multiple drones to inspect the external condition of an aircraft. This solution will replace the work of mechanics who are required to climb up to a height of 20 meters for manual inspection. Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The barbed wire in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, a symbol of the division of North and South Korea, has been remade into the peace cross. The city of Gimpo reported that the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry decided to give out peace crosses made with military barbed wire set [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co. said Wednesday via the company’s official YouTube channel that it will live broadcast the New Year’s sunrise on Jan. 1. Marking the third broadcast of a New Year’s sunrise next year, the company will broadcast the first light of the new year from Ulsan CLX, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A new fire truck that can discharge 75,000 liters of water per minute up to a distance of 130 meters has been introduced for the first time in South Korea. The National Fire Agency said Wednesday that it had introduced the nation’s first high-capacity foam discharging system that will [...]