JEONJU, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Bus stops in in southern city of Jeonju are being transformed into artworks. With a shift away from dull achromatic color, they are reborn as cultural spaces, each with their own characteristics. Starting from 2017, the city government has been carrying out the Art Meets Bus Platform project as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Members of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK have created another sensation at Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. Jennie, a brand ambassador for Chanel, received major media attention at the Chanel 2022 Spring and Summer Show held in Paris on October 5. Jisoo, a global ambassador for Dior, also made [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government completed on Wednesday a public design project setting up shade canopies and mat bags to help visitors enjoy the Han River Park while maintaining proper social distancing. The 15 ‘Cloud Canopies’ set up at 15 locations throughout the Han River Park in Yeouido, western Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Wednesday that it had selected a total of 19 middle and high schools wishing to adopt school uniforms inspired by “hanbok,” traditional Korean clothes, from next year. This will bring the total number of middle and high schools adopting such attire [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — For the first time, instant noodle maker Nongshim Co.’s flagship product Shin Ramyun sales overseas have exceeded domestic sales in South Korea. The company reported that, as of the third quarter of this year, Shin Ramyun’s foreign sales stood at 370 billion won (US$310.5 million), accounting or 53.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Major oil refiner GS Caltex Corp. said Tuesday that it will join hands with global furniture giant Ikea’s Korean unit to begin a pick-up service at one of the company’s gas stations in Seoul’s Gangnam district. If an Ikea customer selects a nearby GS Caltex gas station to pick [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the Afghan evacuees who were airlifted to South Korea in August, teenage girls will learn taekwondo. Together with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation started teaching the Korean traditional martial art to children and teenagers under 18 years of age among the Afghan [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea employees are considering staging a protest over their excessive workload. Industry sources said that several Starbucks employees are communicating via Blind, an anonymous chat app for employed workers and staff, to stage a protest in trucks to demand a better working environment. Starbucks Korea does not have [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will send out mobile notifications, instead of mail, for delinquent tax notices. The city’s internal revenue department has been sending out some 200,000 notices to 25,000 delinquent taxpayers via mail every year. However, the mail often fails to reach the taxpayers because many of them [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The final stages of the return of Camp Market in the western port city of Incheon, which served as a former United States Forces Korea (USFK) base after the liberation of the Korean peninsula in 1945, have been completed with the relocation of the bakery plant on the site. The bakery plant [...]