SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An ingenious effort by a police officer rescued a woman in her 20s from violence by her boyfriend, who suspected her of cheating. According to Suseo Police Station in Seoul, the 112 emergency call center of the Seoul Police received a phone call at 7:19 am on May 8. [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gangnam District Office opened a K-Star themed art toy street on March 12. The street is 400-meters long, and is adorned with art toys inspired by K-stars such as SNSD and EXO. Korean designer team DUCOBI, UK born illustrator Jon Burgerman, Korean illustrator JunkHouse and graffiti artist Artime Joe have [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The internet’s most searched term for popular places in Seoul in the second half of 2014 turned out to be the Hongdae area. According to an analysis conducted by Cheil Data and Analytics Center on 258,000 search keywords input by 3,200 people, 29.8 percent of the search keywords about Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The entertaining music and flavors of Jamaican culture, represented by Bob Marley, a legendary reggae singer-songwriter from Jamaica, hope to keep a hum going at a café in one of South Korea’s busiest and wealthiest business districts: Gangnam in southern Seoul. Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley and founder/chairman of Marley [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Women in their 20s and 30s are reportedly known to be the most frequent victims of phishing scam, according to the Financial Supervisory Service. By region, people living in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam and Seocho districts are most easily fallen by the financial fraud. The financial regulator released a report on November 11 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Hae-jin, a Korean actor famous for his role in TV dramas such as East of Eden, recently met with young perpetrators who spread bad rumors about him and his family on the Internet in a village where he delivered charcoal briquettes for low-income families in south Seoul. On [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Yes24, Korea’s leading online bookstore operator, opened a pop-up store in Sin-nonhyeon Station in Seoul’s bustling Gangnam district to present passers-by the hands-on experience of its flagship e-book reader “Crema” series. The makeshift “Crema Lounge” will be run serving as a resting place where they can stay and read e-books freely. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — On September 25, major social networking services such as Twitter and KakaoTalk were abuzz with postings and videos of a naked woman walking on a busy street near the Seolleung subway station in Seoul’s Gangnam. According to Gangnam Police Station on the 28th, the person who posted the message first time [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group has won one of the most high-profile real estate auctions in South Korea’s history. Korea Electric Power Corp said today the winner for the site of KEPCO’s headquarters, which is estimated to be worth over 3.33 trillion won (US$3.22 billion), is Hyundai Motor Group, which, according to local reports and sources, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Thanks to Psy‘s “Gangnam Style” and its sprawling trendy places, Gangnam is establishing itself as one of the most popular destinations in Seoul among international tourists. According to Cosmojin, a travel agency catering to foreign tourists, the number of international ‘deep pockets’ or VIP tourists who visited the trendy places [...]