SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Wednesday it has donated all proceeds from the 2022 ‘Firefighters Calendar for Hope,’ along with extra donations, to the Hallym Burn Foundation. The agency raised a total of 107 million won (US$88,900) from calendar sales, donations from private companies and joint [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Male nurses working in an emergency room at Asan Medical Center in eastern Seoul have transformed into calendar models, showing off their well-built bodies. It was an arduous undertaking for the guys — ten nurses in total — to make so-called ‘perfect bodies’ to be eligible for the calendar. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Calendar sales at online shopping malls are on the rise as fewer companies are giving out calendars to employees. An online shopping mall Gmarket reported that calendar sales over the last month (from Nov. 2 to Dec. 1) were up 22 percent from the same period last year. Compared to [...]
BUCHEON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Last year, a number of muscled police officers modeled for a calendar that was made to help abused children. It was well received by the public and the police are making the calendar again this year. Park Sung-yong, Assistant Inspector at Bucheon’s Ojeong Police Station, said Wednesday that he [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Tough economic times are changing the culture of South Korean businesses, where calendars were typically offered for free to employees at the beginning of a new year. Now, as employers are distributing fewer free calendars, more people are ordering calendars online. Gmarket, South Korea’s biggest online shopping portal, said [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) is distributing the 2019 Korean Culture Promotion Calendar with the theme of ‘A Year of Things to Do in South Korea.’ To be released on Friday, the calendar includes information on a variety of traditional and modern Korean cultural programs popular among [...]
SHENYANG, China, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has featured a flight crew of its flag carrier Air Koryo in a 2017 calendar of the communist country, obtained Thursday by Yonhap News Agency, in what is seen as an unprecedented move to revitalize its tourism industry amid international sanctions imposed over its nuclear and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2017 Seoul “Momjjang” Firefighter Calendar went on sale Thursday, again featuring the “hottest” firefighters from Korea. Momjjang is a coined term that describes a person (man or women) in impressive physical shape. The project debuted in 2014 backed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, with the goal of providing [...]
SEOUL, Nov.23 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Hotties’ from the Seoul Fire Department have once again posed in front of the camera as calendar models to gather funds to treat burn victims in lower income groups. City officials announced that 14 firefighters participated in making the 2016 calendar. Currently active fire fighters who won the ‘Hot Firefighter [...]