SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Bank of Korea (BOK) said Thursday that it conducted a month-long “Pan-National Coin Exchange Campaign” in May, exchanging a total of 221 million coins worth 32.2 billion won (US$27.7 million) for banknotes. The campaign was led by the Korea Federation of Banks, Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Campaign to Increase the Awareness of the Disabled through Culture” that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) jointly conducted with Lotte Cultureworks Co., the retail giant Lotte Group’s cinema affiliate, is drawing attention. Some 70 ordinary citizens who visited Lotte Cinema Cheongnyangni Branch in Seoul participated [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea unveiled its “tobacco endgame” plan that calls for adopting uniform, plain packaging for all cigarettes and more graphic warning labels to push people to quit smoking, the government said Tuesday. The comprehensive endeavor, reached by the public health policy review committee, aims to lower the smoking rate [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Advertising agency Cheil Worldwide Inc. and Internet portal Kakao Corp. recently launched a unique campaign to prevent drunk driving, which has increased public interest due to the Yoon Chang-ho Act. Cheil announced on Wednesday that its joint campaign with Kakao called ‘Redceipt’ is gaining significant attention from the public. [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of cigarettes in South Korea declined 1.1 percent in the first eight months of 2018 from a year earlier due to a government-led anti-smoking campaign and higher prices, data showed Wednesday. South Korean smokers purchased 2.31 billion 20-cigarette packs in the January-August period, compared with the previous year’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of women have come forward with “me too” accounts of groping and other sexual misconduct they have suffered at the hands of men in positions of power since a female prosecutor bravely shared her own story last week. The prosecutor, Seo Ji-hyun, raised the accusations against a [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A seminar to begin a dialogue on the topic of TV commercials featuring actual victims of smoking, known as a ‘testimonial anti-smoking campaign’, is set to take place before the end of the month. According to an official from the Ministry of Health and Welfare on May 29, [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – After going under a seize and search for faking emissions results for some of its diesel models, Volkswagen once again pulled out their extreme discount plan in the Korean market. Industry watchers see Volkswagen’s move to be a desperate countermeasure against their dropping sales due to their tarnished brand image [...]
SEOUL, Dec.23 (Korea Bizwire) – A Christmas tree with lights powered by a bicycle ‘generator’ has been set up in Seoul Square. A book tree made out of 800 donated books now stands at the Songpa-gu Office, and a ‘recycled tree’ made out of 588 recycled plastic boxes is drawing attention at the Gangdong-gu Office. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Singer Lee Seung-hwan is launching a campaign in partnership with the Korea Animal Welfare Association (KAWA) called ‘Pets are Family’. According to the singer’s agent, Dream Factory, Lee is holding this event together with the KAWA to send out a message that pets are ‘family’, not ‘property’. The event [...]