SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean-style Mediterranean diet developed by a local research team helped prevent cardiovascular disease by improving dyslipidemia indices, research showed Thursday. A research team from the Gangnam Severance Hospital offered a Korean-style Mediterranean diet to 92 hyperlipidemia patients for 10 weeks and carried out tracking observations. The Korean-style Mediterranean [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern resort island of Jeju has become the most popular destination for traveling with pets. The Korea Tourism Organization and the Korea Consumer Agency analyzed Twitter and other social media posts, online news articles and data from map navigation service “T map” from January 2019 to June of this year [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Songpa District said Wednesday that it has introduced a new service to find the owners of pets killed in traffic accidents. The district will check for identification tags or chips before removing the deceased pet from the road to locate and deliver the pet to its owner. Previously, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday that it will present a ‘welcome box’ containing a Seoul map and first aid kits to young single-person households who move from other provinces. The welcome boxes will be presented to individuals between 19 and 29 years of age who moved to Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. cars are up in Germany and Britain, the two largest economies in Europe with strong automobile industries. The German Association of the Automotive Industry reported an 8.7 percent increase in Hyundai and Kia car sales from last year with 129,257 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it will provide a digital mapping service that locates zero-waste shops in the city. Users can look up zero-waste cafes, restaurants, refill shops and eco-friendly appliance stores by accessing the Smart Seoul Map website and clicking on the zero-waste icon. The map [...]
ANSAN, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province will launch the operation of its first hydrogen-powered intra-city bus in Ansan, southwest of Seoul, on Monday. Powered by a 180-kilowatt fuel cell developed by Hyundai Motor Co., the hydrogen fuel-cell electric bus can cover a distance of 450 kilometers on a single charge. It can be [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization is hosting ‘K-Week, Imagine your Korea’ in Spain, with the theme of ‘discovering Korea in everyday life.’ The event will teach Korean calligraphy, Korean-style make-up and Korean cooking classes at a local studio in Madrid from Oct. 15-21. The studio will also host a photo [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. won the triple crown at the 2021 World Rally Championship held in Tarragona, Spain from October 14-17. The South Korean automaker’s world rally racers won first and third place with i20 Coupe WRC nabbing two spots on the podium. Hyundai has won three championship cups this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chosun Sinbo, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan, recently introduced the rooftop farm of a daycare center in Pyongyang as a good example of ‘rooftop afforestation.’ The rooftop of the daycare center is completely covered with gardens and an artificial pond. Viewed from the sky, the rooftop is [...]