SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart24 Inc. said Tuesday that it is joining hands with Art Together, a group buying platform for artwork, to sell shares of ownership for “Running Women,” an art piece created by British artist Julian Opie. The convenience store chain plans to divide ownership into 4,400 shares, and give out [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean held 3.9 credit cards on average last year, data showed Sunday, as credit card holdings in the country continue to increase as more people use credit cards as their preferred payment method. There were 110.98 million credit cards in South Korea as of end-2019, up 5.92 million [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The portion of smartphone users among South Koreans aged 70 and over has risen by more than 10 times over the past five years, a report showed Monday. The smartphone penetration rate for the age group came to 37.8 percent in 2018, compared with 3.6 percent five years earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 South Koreans use a smartphone, marking the highest level of smartphone ownership in the world, a recent report showed. Ninety-five percent of the South Korean population used a smartphone last year, the highest rate among 27 countries surveyed, according to the report released by the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Shares held by foreign investors at South Korea’s top 30 listed firm have exceeded 315 trillion won (US$278 billion), data showed Sunday. According to the Financial Supervisory Service data submitted to the National Assembly, shares held by foreign investors were 67 percent of the total share ownership as of [...]