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, […]

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 […]

A whole new world – The Metaverse of SKT

Lee Sooyeon              Have you heard of ‘Metaverse’?If you have, how would you define the metaverse? Is it one metaverse? Is it multiple metaverses? Is the term metaverse the term we should use? Is the metaverse here, or is it being created? So many questions arise when one is asked to define the term metaverse. […]

Beyond the ‘virtual playground’ of teenagers… Evolving metaverse

2021.09.07 Minjun Son Image source: SM Entertainment              Teenagers meet friends in an online virtual space and enjoy fireworks in the night sky. They also buy new products from the luxury brand Gucci. A virtual influencer created by computer graphics also serves as a brand model. All of this is happening in a space called […]

Raising Pets in Germany

LEE SOOYEON              Many of you might know that there are strict rules for pet raisers in some countries. In Korea, many people argue that Korea has no strict rules to be responsible of their pets, which ends up with people who treat their pets as something they can throw away anytime. The most well-known […]

‘Waste-Free World’ and change of companies

Yugyeong Jeong Coca-Cola According to the BBC, beverage company Coca-Cola is collaborating with Danish paper container developer Paboco to launch a prototype of Adez, a fruit soda in a paper bottle this summer. The prototype is made of super-strong paper shells, and is designed to be 100% recyclable, composed of bio-based materials that are resistant […]