SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A laundry detergent that cleans clothes with micro bubbles and a small amount of surfactant has attracted US$ 60,000 in funding through two international crowdfunding sites, Kickstarter and Indiegogo. JnK Science, the company behind the new type of detergent called SMACLE, said that it took in US$ 47,560 through [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently the so-called “fintech” has been in vogue. A compound word between finance and technology, fintech encompasses services such as mobile payment, mobile money transfer, crowd funding, and the like. The main reason the word fintech has become more familiar with us is services like KakaoPay by Kakao Inc. and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – May is the month of families and this year will be no different in that so many families would take trips to the outdoors. But so many children go missing every year. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of the missing including the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – As a countermeasure to the high jobless rate among educated youth, the Korean government is working to create a “Second Tech Venture Boom” to hire them. However, establishing a startup for them is not an easy work especially in the area of raising funds. In the case of [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s No. 1 online portal Naver announced that it is going to air, “I Am Your Songwriter” a label show by indie music production company, Magic Strawberry Sound, on its website’s Naver Music Live streaming service. Naver Music has been introducing indie musicians in label show formats since [...]