SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The retail industry in South Korea is booming in this year’s monsoon season, which has particularly been windy and rainy. E-commerce platform Gmarket has seen a 94-percent increase in umbrella sales in Jeju during the monsoon season between June 20 and 29, compared to last year. Sales of umbrellas [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Koreans have realized the significance of climate change following the coronavirus outbreak and a record-breaking summer monsoon season, a local civic group said Thursday. Green Korea United conducted a survey of 1,500 South Koreans between the ages of 14 and 69, 95.8 percent of whom realized the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Online liquor sales are soaring as a growing number of South Koreans are choosing to drink at home following a record-setting monsoon season and surge in new coronavirus cases. Convenience store chain CU reported that pre-ordered wine sales between Aug. 1 and 16 jumped more than fivefold compared to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since this year’s monsoon season broke historical records by raging on for more than 50 days, an increasing number of citizens are stepping out to protect the environment as the torrential rain is seen as a side effect of global warming. The zero-waste movement is one of these [...]
CHEONGJU, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones with high-resolution cameras have proven to be invaluable during this summer’s lengthy monsoon season. Last Wednesday, Chungbuk Provincial Police Agency’s drone team looked for missing victims of a flood that swept through Chungju Lake near Jecheon. The team’s large drones can fly as fast as 75 kilometers per [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a prolonged slump in consumption due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, South Korea’s restaurant industry was hit with another blow by the long monsoon season accompanied by torrential rainfall. The food delivery business appears to be the industry’s only area of growth thank to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Floods and landslides triggered by heavy downpours in South Korea’s central and southwestern regions have killed 31 people and left 11 others missing in just over a week, forcing more than 6,000 to evacuate, authorities said Sunday. The country remains on high alert as search and recovery efforts continue [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As the monsoon season continues to rage on with showers almost every day, raincoats specially designed for pets are gaining popularity. SSG.COM, online shopping unit of retail conglomerate Shinsegae, reported that petwear sales between January and July jumped by 58 percent compared to the previous year. Sales of raincoats [...]
DAEJEON, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea enters the monsoon season, road management authorities are increasingly concerned over potholes, the so-called ‘land mines of the road.’ As such, there are an increasing number of patents that deal with repairing sealcoated roads and pavement. Potholes refer to pot-shaped depressions in a road surface where [...]