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“Merck More than a Mother” Addresses Infertility Challenges and Solutions in Africa in Partnership with IFFS

NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Merck (http://www.MerckGroup.com), a leading science and technology company, through “Merck More than a Mother” (www.MerckMoreThanaMother.com) in partnership with the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS) conducted a panel to address infertility challenges and solutions in Africa at the IFFS World Congress in New Delhi, India. The ministers, [...]

S. Korea Increases Oil Imports from Africa

SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is increasingly bringing in African crude oil, as its prices have become more attractive due to competition with shale gas, refiners here said Sunday. Seoul imported 9.6 million barrels of African crude oil and “condensate,” a type of ultra-light crude, in the first quarter of this year. [...]

‘Youth over Flowers’ Takes ‘Reply 1988′ Cast to Africa

SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) - The third season of “Youth over Flowers,” a tvN travel reality show, will take four male leads of the same network’s soap opera hit “Reply 1988″ to Africa, its producers said Thursday. Star producer Na Young-seok, whose shows have consistently ranked high in viewership charts, will continue to direct the [...]

CGV Brings 4DX Theaters to Africa

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – CGV said Wednesday it will open its first 4DX theater in Africa, leaving just Australia free of the innovation developed by the theater arm of South Korea’s largest entertainment conglomerate out of the world’s six inhabited continents. The first theater will open in Nu Metro Cinema in Cape Town’s [...]

11th Street Launches Travel Packages to Eccentric Places

SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With the return of the vacation season, ‘11th street‘ announced they would be holding a special promotion for travel packages until August 9. The ‘Silkroad Desert Camp’, where you can experience the lives of Mongolian nomads, costs 2,036,100 won; the ‘Ice Field Parkway’, where you can experience Canadian glaciers, [...]

Seoul Set to Send 2nd Medical Team to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will send its second batch of medical personnel to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone this weekend as initially planned despite concerns about the possible infection of a South Korean medical worker there, officials said Friday. A team of 10-strong medical workers will leave South Korea on Saturday on a [...]

The $100 Million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme Opens on January 1, 2015

LAGOS, Nigeria, Jan. 1, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) — The $100 Million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme – an annual programme of training, funding and mentoring, designed to empower the next generation of African entrepreneurs – is now open for entries through its application portal http://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/teep The flagship entrepreneurship programme from the Tony Elumelu Foundation opens [...]

Expressway Rest Area Samaritans Roll up Sleeves for Malaria Prevention Cause

SEOUL, Korea, April 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Commemorating World Malaria Day, which came on April 25th, “Ki-Heung Service Area,” an expressway rest area in the south of Seoul, took an initiative to prevent Malaria for locals and children in Uganda. “World Share,” an overseas relief agency, teamed up with the rest area to hold a “Mosquito Net [...]