SEJONG, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will invest 40 billion won (US$35.5 million) by 2020 to improve the country’s industrial design capability and develop higher value-added products, the trade ministry here said Monday. In a design promotion plan unveiled at the 2016 Design Innovation Forum held in Seoul, the Ministry of Trade, Industry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has to carry out sweeping reform of the service industry as a first step to transform the manufacturing-focused economy into the service sector-led economy, a Korea-born official from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday. “The South Korean economy has been steered by the manufacturing industry and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean economy is changing, with startups meeting both success and failure, and companies that fail to adapt to the new market realities will eventually perish. In a recent survey conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) and 71 regional organizations, 49.9 percent of 2,400 surveyed [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Large retail and distribution companies are rapidly expanding their presence in the manufacturing industry through M&A or Private Brands (PB). The rationale behind this phenomenon is that integrated management from planning and manufacturing to distribution of products saves costs and exerts greater influence in the market. Lotte Department Store launched [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of hybrid cars in South Korea hit an all-time high last month amid growing interest in environmentally friendly vehicles, industry data showed Wednesday. Sales of hybrid cars here reached 7,454 units last month, breaching the previous monthly record of 5,157 units set in December, according to the data by [...]
SEOUL, Feb.16 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, the company behind the popular KakaoTalk messaging app, is launching a distribution service in which products are manufactured after having been pre-ordered. The company’s goal is to prevent resources from being wasted, and help boost revenues for manufacturers with good ideas. Kakao announced that it will start a service [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – CSA Group, a leading standards development organization and global provider of product certification and testing services, today announced a distribution agreement with Korean Standards Association (KSA). Under the two-year agreement, KSA will have non-exclusive, worldwide rights to package, distribute and sell CSA Group standards and related publications electronically [...]