LONDON, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) - London IT engineer and extreme swimmer Michael Ventre is hoping to raise millions for charity by swimming 3,800 miles from New York to London – a feat which has never been attempted before, which aims to raise millions for Oxfam. Michael, who successfully swam the English Channel in 2011, plans to make his world-record attempt at swimming [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A famed artist, who has long been rumored to be dead, passed away several months ago, with her daughter having been seen carrying an urn containing the painter’s remains, a head of a local museum said Thursday. Kim Hong-hee, general director of the Seoul Museum of Art, said the [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — During the K-Food Week 2015 from Sep. 26 through Oct. 4, many Korean restaurants and grocery stores will offer discounts, special promotions, and free services in major U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Metropolitan Washington D.C., Philadelphia, San Diego [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Cam Fowler, Group Head, Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO), is scheduled to participate in the Barclays Capital 2015 Global Financial Services Conference in New York on September 17, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. (EDT). Mr. Fowler’s presentation will be broadcast live via [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Hotel has announced that they have finalized a buyout of The New York Palace Hotel, located in Manhattan, for a total cost of $805 million. Lotte Hotel signed the buyout agreement on May 29, and set a corporate body to manage it on June 5. Officials from the hotel [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — DIOTEK (www.diotek.com), a company specializing in speech solutions such as speech synthesis and speech recognition, announced that it will participate in SpeechTEK 2015 held in New York, an exhibition that specializes in speech technology. In this exhibition, DIOTEK will cover diverse TTS languages including U.S. English, UK English, Canadian [...]
LOS ANGELES, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean film “Twenty” will open in North American theaters next week, its American distributor said Tuesday. The comedy about three close friends who all turn 20 years old will be shown in 25 theaters in such big cities as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Among 106 major cities in Asia, Seoul ranked fourth in terms of cost of living. According to Numbeo, information providers on world living conditions on February 1, the most expensive city in terms of living cost in Asia was Singapore with a CPI of 94.08. Following Singapore were Macau (89.12), Tokyo (85.67) and Seoul [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is presenting its vision for an immersive and interactive retail experience at NRF 2015, highlighting a range of co-created solutions suited for every retail environment, from the storefront to the showroom to the loading dock, warehouse and back office. Combining seamlessly with a diverse [...]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Fruit of the Loom announced on May 6th that famed American street performer The Naked Cowboy® is officially changing his iconic underwear from standard briefs to Fruit of the Loom’s all-new Reinvented Boxer Brief. The New York City icon will be rocking his boxer brief look – with all-new features [...]