SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Musterbag Smart Edition is a backpack that uses IoT sensors so parents can check if their children arrive safely at school, and then back home in the afternoon. The bag was first introduced in early December in a joint venture between telecommunications company SK Telecom and children’s bag [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean food and drug safety watchdog said Friday that it will officially add the category of children’s cosmetics later this year in an effort to better monitor such products. Starting in September, manufacturers of products for children such as lotion, cream and oil are mandated to label [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The ubiquitous use of smartphones has given rise to a new generation of kindergarten and elementary school children picking up the devices at an early age to discover the world they have yet to see. This emerging trend has brought about new children’s TV shows that are being introduced [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Taking place Tuesday in Seoul’s Seongdong District Office was the ceremony for opening thousands of piggy banks donated by some 3,400 children from 60 kindergartens in the district, a campaign that began 20 years ago. The ceremony was attended by 500 kindergarten children, faculty, and district officials. “The event [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced Sunday a revision to its Rules on Housing Supply, to include fetuses and adoptees as part of its ‘multi-child special housing supply’ program. The program was designed to promote child birth with Korea’s fertility rate stuck among the lowest in the world, and gives priority in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Blood is thicker than water. The relationship between parents and children is not to be broken. But these days, this unity seems too close for comfort. The number of cases of parents resorting to violent behavior directed to their middle-aged children is increasing drastically. Incheon’s Jungbu Police Department arrested [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean manufacturers of children’s products are rapidly expanding their operations in China, targeting the fast-growing market in a country that recently ended its infamous one-child policy. Zero to Seven is among the companies making a pivot to China with its business centered on children’s clothing brands such as allo [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Children in angel costumes showed up at Cheonggye Plaza Tuesday for a ceremonial event officially declaring October 4 as the Day of Angels. The Day of Angels campaign was first organized in 2014 by ChildFund Korea, a charity and welfare foundation, to help children in uncertain economic circumstances and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean opposition lawmaker said Friday most cases of abuse against senior citizens are committed by their sons, urging the government to come up with protective measures amid the country’s aging population. According to the data compiled by Rep. In Jae-keun of the main opposition Minjoo Party of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of children from around the globe took part in a lunchtime concert at Gwanghwamun Plaza in central Seoul on Monday. The concert, arranged by World Vision, took place to promote the ongoing 2016 International Children’s Choir Festival, designed to help Syrian refugees for the upcoming World Humanitarian Day [...]