SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix’s Korean-language series “Celebrity” was the most-watched non-English TV show on the streamer in the previous week, its viewership chart showed Wednesday. Released on June 30, the 12-part show about the extravagant lives of social media influencers topped Netflix’s non-English TV show list for the week of July 3-9 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. was ranked as the best-managed company among South Korea’s top 500 businesses in 2021 to retain the top spot for three years running, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Samsung, the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, obtained 766.9 out of 800 points [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain CU recaptured the No. 1 position in South Korea in terms of outlet numbers in 2020, one year after losing the title, data showed Thursday. CU, operated by BGF Retail Co., had 14,923 outlets across the nation as of end-2020, up 1,046 from the previous year [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to maintain second place in the global semiconductor supplier ranking this year behind U.S. giant Intel Corp. despite a solid sales increase, an industry report showed Tuesday. The South Korean tech giant was projected to log US$60.4 billion in chip sales this year, up [...]
SEJONG, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s global competitiveness ranking fell by one notch this year as exports and facility investments slowed down, an international institute said Wednesday. The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) said in its annual report that South Korea ranked 28th in terms of world competitiveness among 63 countries surveyed, [...]
SEOUL, Feb.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Changes are afoot in the cosmetics industry, with brand rankings in turmoil. It’s Skin climbed up to rank fourth due to its success with ‘snail cream’, and the formerly fourth ranked Etude dropped to sixth after slow sales continued for two years straight. According to industry analysts, The Face Shop [...]
SEOUL, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has announced the results of an analysis of the words that were searched for on its portal site as part of its ‘2015 Naver Search Word Settlement’. The word that was searched the most on PC was ‘Youtube’, while ‘weather’ ranked first on mobile. The keyword ‘Daum’ ranked second [...]
New York, Mar 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Forbes announced today the release of a new digital tool and wealth tracking platform that provides real-time updates on the net worth and ranking for each individual featured on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List. To view Forbes’ real-time billionaire rankings, please visit forbes.com/billionaires. For the first time, Forbes.com [...]