SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A canceled real life ‘Squid Game’ contest will be held at a hotel in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, announced St. John’s Hotel, which had planned to host a real-life version of the popular Netflix series late last month only to be forced to cancel it due to regulations imposed by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way to some of the hottest spaces frequented by department store visitors: beauty select shops. Retail giant Shinsegae Group announced on Monday that Chicor, its beauty select shop chain, will display an advanced type of pop-up store in which ‘Zmirror’ — a smart [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean movies have hit the streets of London. The 16th London Korean Film Festival opened up on Thursday at Regent Street Cinema in London. Being the first large-scale Korean cultural event since the worldwide success of “Squid Game,” the festival is being rigorously observed by local media. The South Korean action [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of the Interior and Safety released a selection of the seven best children’s playgrounds on Monday to foster a culture of safe playground environment. The playgrounds were chosen from a list of recommendations submitted by local governments and municipal or provincial offices of education, based on the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The second kimchi-themed cook-off was held at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Copia, a so-called “food lover’s paradise” in California’s Napa Valley, a famous wine-producing region. Carlota Bradley won the first prize with her creative culinary art called Jonggkim Rice Stack, a dish made with kimchi and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Polar Research Institute announced that it has succeeded in tracking the seasonal changes in ice formation and marine mammal activities by recording the sound of the Antarctic Ocean over the past four years using underwater acoustic equipment. The research team, jointly with the U.S. National Oceanic and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean merchandise is attracting U.S. customers at America’s largest shopping mall in the Northeast region of the country. The state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) hosted the K-Lifestyle event at American Dream mall in New Jersey, the United States, on Friday to assist Korean firms export consumer goods to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Cargo trucks are being modified illegally to be driven without urea water solution, a key material used in diesel vehicles to reduce emissions, given the current shortages brought on by a Chinese ban on exports of urea. An online forum of cargo truck drivers is increasingly talking about ‘vasectomies’ [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) shortage is creating extraordinary situations in the nation. Prices have soared more than 10-fold and some customers are attempting to buy DEF directly from overseas. As the supply chain disruption has continued, it has been increasingly hard to obtain DEF at gas stations in [...]
IKSAN, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The appearance of an otter, a sign of a healthy environment, served as welcome news on Thursday to the residents of the small village of Jangjeom in Iksan, North Jeolla Province. Jangjeom has been stigmatized as a ‘cancer village’ after a cluster of cancer patients emerged following the opening [...]