On Feb. 22, the Australian Embassy in Seoul joined Australian restaurateur Bill Granger to showcase Australian café culture in a special event to mark the opening of iconic Australian restaurant bills in Gwanghwamun.At the reception guests enjoyed a delicious Australian-style menu and fine Australia

The European Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ECCK) held its 2016 New Year Party at the Grand Hyatt in Jan 28.H.E. Gerhard Sabathil, the ambassador of the head of the delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Korea, delivered a congratulatory speech on the occasion. He stressed the importance

CGV’s ScreenX, the multi-projection system that extends a movie’s images onto theater walls, has made a good start in China, which is rapidly emerging as the largest film market in the world.CGV, the largest cinema chain in Korea, said ScreenX is highly likely to thrive in the Chinese market as the

It is not an exaggeration to say that Korea is a “coffee nation” when eight out of ten Koreans drink two or more cups of coffee and seven percolate coffee in their homes.On Jan. 20, the Seoul Café Show said that they published a “Korea Coffee White Paper” after conducting a survey of 1,076 participa

Korea University announced on January 19 that its research team developed a device and technique for mobile 3D indoor mapping that allow 3D indoor maps to be drawn up based on instantaneous indoor image and distance detection. The new developments are characterized by a backpack combined with a lase

Samsung Electronics CEO and vice chairman Kwon Oh-hyun met with leukemia patients and delivered consolation on Jan. 14. The Korean IT giant also handed a written apology to family members of former workers who suffered deadly diseases including leukemia and various cancers on the same day, claiming

According to Statistics Korea, the ratio of single-person households in Korea increased from 15.5 percent to 25.3 percent between 2000 and 2013 and is estimated to exceed 31 percent in 2025.Under the circumstances, convenience stores are benefiting greatly from the demographic trend. For example, th

The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) officially opened the doors of the “2018 PyeongChang House” on Jan. 4 at the Green-city Convention Center in Gangneung. Ice events will be staged in Gangneung and the special hospitality venue is designed to

Lotte World Tower, the tallest building in both Koreas, will hold an event for the New Year’s Eve countdown.Greeting the Year of the Monkey, Lotte Corporation is hosting the “2016 Lotte World Tower New Year Twist Show,” creating a scene with LED lighting installed from the 13th floor to 100th floor

Korean Air is providing more active support for the successful hosting of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The company transported snow tracks, which are the essential equipment for test events of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, at no cost, through a KE286 freighter that left To

CJ Group is offering scholarships to 55 students from elementary, middle and high school and college in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. The group said that it has been selecting and granting scholarships to students in need from 2013, along with Lam Dong Province, and it has expanded beneficiaries and t

Dongbu Daewoo Electronics is aiming to occupy the French market, the major market in Europe, through sports marketing.The company said it has become an official sponsor for “Hand Star Game 2015,” a game of handball which is the national sport in France.About 20,000 fans from all over France watched

Samsung Electronics announced on Dec. 29 it is addressing the growing demand of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health wearables market, called a Bio-Processor. The bioprocessing chip, now in mass production, is specially designed to accelerate the development

Hanwha Galleria, a retail unit under the Hanwha Group, has partially opened its first duty-free store at the 63 City Building in Yeouido, Seoul on Dec. 28, its debut into the duty free business.With the title of “Beginning of the Golden Journey,” Galleria Duty Free 63 will feature a total of 369 cos

Hankook Tire, a leading global tire company, donated 1.1 billion won (US$939,769) to the Community Chest of Korea (CCK) on Dec. 23 as part of its “Sharing Hope Campaign 2016” to support the underprivileged.From 2003, the company has been joining the sharing hope campaign led by the CCK every year to

The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) announced today that the ‘Australian Mangoes Promotion’ will be held from 24 to 30 Dec. at select Homeplus stores.The promotion will run at all Homeplus stores and will provide consumers the opportunity to purchase quality Australian mangoes at a discounted

SK Hynix announced on Dec. 21 that its employees, who were taking part in the overseas training program for outstanding employees, did volunteer work for the underprivileged in Cambodia.The program was aimed at helping SK Hynix employees get global mindsets and competence by providing different cult

WeMakePrice, one of South Korea's biggest social commerce platforms, is holding an online bazaar called “Red Bazaar” until Jan. 8, along with 60 domestic, foreign and luxury designer brands.The Red Bazaar is a special online bazaar in partnership with numerous brands at home and abroad. Two percent

The SPC Group announced on Dec. 18 that it has opened a Paris Baguette shop that has been redecorated in a “Big Bang” theme in Shanghai, in partnership with YG Entertainment. “Big Bang” is a Korean idol group that has also spawned a line of cute animation characters. This is the first store in both

On Tuesday, Dec. 15, a classical concert titled Music and Life of Carl Nielsen – 150 Years, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the world-renowned Danish classical music composer and composer Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 – Oct. 3, 1931) was held at the Seoul National University Museum of Art (