SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — With the summer heat sweeping across Korea more than 10 days earlier than last year, convenience stores are seeing demand for ice cube cups soar. Convenience store chain CU reported that ice sales between July 14 and 20, including ice cups and ice bags, jumped by a factor of [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ji-young, a 29-year-old office worker in Seoul, enjoyed her second getaway vacation this year at a remote country house on the periphery of the southern agricultural city of Sangju last month. The rustic old-style farmer’s house, built with clay and wood, came with few of the amenities and [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Disaster Management Research Institute said Wednesday that it had developed a ‘heat distribution map’ that offers a full glimpse of the heat distribution situation for the summer season across the country. The institute will provide the newly-developed heat distribution map to departments and research institutes responsible for [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s air conditioning market is seeing new trends emerge as air circulators are outstripping electric fans in sales, and movable or window air conditioners are gaining popularity. E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s largest discount store chain by sales, announced Wednesday that total air conditioner sales from June 1 to [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six months into the new coronavirus pandemic, wearing a face mask in public has become an everyday norm here. Starting last month, the government tightened rules by mandating face masks on all buses, taxis and subways and allowing drivers to refuse passengers without masks. But as the [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, still stuck in first wave of coronavirus outbreak, is on alert over another potential round of virus infections in the summer, as a significant downturn in the virus appears unlikely. Respiratory viruses, such as influenza, tend to subdue in the summer after surging in the winter season. [...]
SACHEON, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Miniature-sized watermelons grown from suspended pots will soon be made available for South Korean consumers. Gyeongnam Sacheon Agricultural Development & Technology Center will begin selling fun-size watermelons grown via nutriculture through stores of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, better known as Nonghyup, in the southeastern city of Sacheon. These [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to see warmer temperatures this summer compared with last year, with torrential downpours occurring intermittently, the national weather agency said Friday. The average temperature in the June-August period was forecast to be 0.5 to 1 degree higher than last year’s average of 24.1 C, with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s box office is expected to receive the worst score for the summer peak season in six years, as no film will probably post more than 10 million admissions. Since 2014, at least one flick has reached the 10 million milestone in ticket sales in South Korea every [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent report has revealed that construction companies are failing to meet a government recommendation saying construction workers should be provided with enough water, shade, and breaks to avoid health problems caused by the scorching summer heat. According to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) survey, 14.8 percent [...]