Brand new super mini car for Koreans – the Casper

Lee Sooyeon              Hyundai has revealed the Casper as an extremely compact, SUV-style supermini for its South Korean home market. The inspiration for the name is said to come from the skateboarding trick ‘Casper’, in which the board is flipped upside down and back to front all in one swift movement.              Hyundai says this […]

Consumers responded positively to unlabeled bottled water

Minjun Son 2021.08.12 Image source : Jeju Samdasoo “If the price is the same, I will choose a product that helps society and the environment.” In a survey conducted last year, 93.4% of consumers answered this way.                   According to the distribution industry, the food and beverage industry is the most active in these results. […]

Seong-Jin Cho’s Recital Return with Chopin

Yugyeong Jeong Pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who won the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition for the first time as a Korean and the third as an Asian, will hold a recital from the end of August to the beginning of September in Busan, Incheon, Daegu and Seoul. The recital starts in Busan on August 31st, and […]

Extended application of substitute holidays

Yugyeong Jeong http://www.flaticon.com Existing substitute holidays were applied only when the Lunar New Year and Chuseok holidays overlap with Sundays and Children’s Day overlapped with Saturdays and Sundays. From 2022 onwards, if the Lunar New Year and Chuseok holidays are on Sundays, and Children’s Day and national holidays (March 1, Liberation Day, National Foundation Day, […]

Kakao and Naver are in trouble… A regulation towards the big tech firms

Lim, Do Yeub Sep 14th, 2021              The Korean government and financial department recently have started to regulate several big tech firms in Korea. The firms include Kakao and Naver, which are the two leading firms in the IT industry. The government pointed out that they are overusing their power in the market. Kakao and […]

University freshman welcome party held by metaverse

Yugyeong Jeong Universities that are difficult to hold a welcome party for new students due to COVID-19 held a welcome party through the metaverse campus in the virtual reality world. Students from 31 countries around the world gathered in the virtual auditorium. After listening to the professors and seniors, they expressed their emotions through emoticons […]

Domino’s Pizza Delivers Pizzas with Drones

Yugyeong Jeong http://www.molit.go.kr The ‘Pizza Drone Delivery Service’, which allows you to receive pizza delivered by drone, will start on August 22 in Sejong City. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced that they will start their service through collaboration with a domestic drone company ‘Pilot Square (P-Square)’ and a pizza chain company […]

What’s the difference between KF-94 and KN-95 Masks?

Lee Sooyeon p.c: retailers              Now that the Delta variant is spreading quickly throughout the world, keeping track of which masks we should wear to protect ourselves and the people around us from COVID-19 has been even more important. Earlier in the pandemic, when N95 masks were in short supply and recommended only for medical […]