SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire)- “Dried” foods sell like hotcakes in the run up to Chuseok or Hangawi, a major harvest festival celebrated in Korea. Gift sets consisting of dried Hanwoo(Korean beef), dried fish, half-dried baked yams, and dried persimmons are in high demand as Chuseok(Korean Thanksgiving) gifts. According to Shinsegae department store, sales of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – With the approach of Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving holiday, carmakers are providing various services including free rentals. Hyundai Motor is holding a ‘Hangawi (Korean Thanksgiving Day) Rental’ event in which they plan to provide 200 new Avantes and 100 new Sonatas. The vehicles can be used from September 24 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of direct overseas purchases has been increasing every year, and for the first time last year, reached 1 trillion won. The trend continues as the number of people directly buying their holiday gifts for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) from overseas websites is increasing. According to Gmarket, an online shopping [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Department stores and large retailers are launching gift sets for Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving holiday, that range from socks going for 2,800 won to 33 million won wine sets. Though the holiday is a symbol of richness, the polarization in the prices of the gift sets reflects a bitter [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – During big holidays such as Chuseok, or Korean equivalent of Thanksgivingday, family reunions are central to the traditional Korean festivity: families and relatives all around the nation come together to share food and their stories. However, this big holiday season also comes as a good-bye moment to a significant number [...]
SEJONG, South Korea, Sep. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A housewife in her late 30s was arrested on a charge of inflicting injury upon her mother-in-law in Sejong city, South Chungcheong Province on September 7. According to Sejong Police Station in the city, a woman was brought in for a violence charge against her husband’s mother [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea boasts its best packages delivery service, unmatched by any other nation in the world. Korean consumers can receive goods purchased online within just a day and this speedy delivery system is largerly credited to the committed efforts made by the local delivery worker – estimated at about 45,000-strong manpower in the nation. For the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 16 (Korea Bizwire) – People lining up at train stations for tickets home may be one of the most universal urban landscapes all around the world in holiday seasons. People spend their precious time on the road to have long-anticipated family reunions. Koreans are no exception in this. September, the month in which [...]