SEJONG, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Directors in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have been ill at ease recently because of the chance that they might be promoted to the top position in a personnel realignment of high ranking officials that could happen as early as next month. Government officials have long been [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A prolonged economic slump and changes in drinking culture have cornered the whiskey market to the point where the industry has fallen into cutthroat competition, with companies breaking a voluntary agreement signed under the direction of a supervisory agency, the National Tax Service. Diageo Korea and Pernod Ricard Korea, the [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has appointed its initial ‘first-degree master prosecutors’. The three prosecutors are being referred to as ‘black belt prosecutors’ for their exceptional expertise in criminal investigations. The policy to appoint authorized master prosecutors was first implemented in 2013 by the Prosecutor’s Office. Only the best prosecutors from 173 investigative [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Watsons, Asia’s largest drugstore, is launching its first official online shopping site (https://shop.watsons.co.kr) and mobile application on April 2. Watsons Korea explains that the online mall and mobile application will hold all of the various brands offline Watsons stores have in stock. To celebrate the opening, customers who sign [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics has been criticized for another misplaced marketing agenda following the epic match between professional Go player Lee Se-dol and AlphaGo. Lee wore a shirt that had the characters ‘G5’ embroidered on the sleeve. The G5 is expected to be the next smartphone to be launched by Lee’s long time [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group on Friday made the lowest number of executive promotions in six years as its flagship smartphone business and other affiliates are suffering a prolonged slump. Samsung Group said it has made 294 executive promotions, the lowest number since 2009, when the global economic crisis [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment has launched a new cloud platform for the nation’s mobile game ecosystem. The company said this in a press conference held on December 17 at its Play Museum headquarters building in Pangyo located in the southern outskirts of Seoul. The all-inclusive cloud solutions “Toast Cloud” consist of [...]