NAJU, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeonnam Agricultural Research and Extension Service announced Tuesday the development of two new pet food products made from locally-grown loquat leaves and kiwis that help pets to stay healthy. Also announced was a new pet food made from kiwis that helps prevent allergies. Pet food with 0.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker, is considering temporarily suspending some of its plants in the country later this month due to the fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic, industry sources said Sunday. It is planning to halt operations of three factories — two in Gwangmyeong, south of [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s two biggest carmakers, said Thursday their U.S. plants stopped operations as their American rivals have agreed to close factories as a precaution against the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Hyundai Motor suspended its plant in Alabama on March 18 (local [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electronics companies are set to resume their plant operations in China, industry officials said Monday, following an extended Lunar New Year holiday amid the spread of the novel coronavirus in the world’s No. 2 economy. The companies said they plan to resume production Monday, although some manufacturing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will carry out a pilot project to collect potted plants, transfer them to recyclable pots, and re-parcel out them to social welfare facilities and public organizations. The city plans to test-run the project for Seongbuk and Dobong districts this year, and expand it to all [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has showed that growing plants indoors can help improve air quality. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) revealed the results of the study on Tuesday, following a variety of experiments conducted on indoor plants over the last four years. “We used a special device that visualizes fine [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a grey haze of fine dust that continues to blanket South Korea, flower farms are seeing a ray of light as consumers flock to buy air-filtering plants to take the issue of air quality into their own hands. The worsening air quality – the result of higher levels [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Will “domestic plants” become a growth industry of the future? In Korea, an increasing number of households have come to adopt domestic plants, like succulents or cactus plants, as their choice of home companion, flora that serve various purposes from simple home decoration to freshening the atmosphere [...]