The Porsche World Roadshow, featuring diverse driving programs such as circuit driving, slalom course, and launch braking offered by the German carmaker, resumed in South Korea on May 19 after skipping a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Porsche Korea had around 28 models including the Taycan GTS, a model yet to be launched in South Korea, lined up for test drives at Everland Speedway in Yongin...

In the upcoming June 1 local elections, a total of 126,668 foreign residents will be eligible to vote, according to the electoral rolls finalized Friday. The figure is an increase of some 20,000 from four years earlier, according to the National Election Commission. Of them, 99,969 are Chinese nationals, accounting for nearly 79 percent of the total. Amid a rise of anti-Chinese sentiment and re...

NAPLES, Fla. , May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pro Music Rights ( " PMR"), one of the world ' s largest music licensing companies, is pleased to announce that it has granted the well-known video service TikTok a license that will allow its users to create videos which include music from Pro Music Rights' extensive repertoire. The agreement will enable TikTok to offer PMR ' s more than 2,50...

South Korea's first lunar probe mission, formally known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, has been named "Danuri," the Ministry of Science and ICT said Monday. Danuri is a combination of the two Korean words "dal" and "nuri," meaning moon and enjoy, respectively. According to the ministry, the name expresses a desire for the country's first moon mission to be successful, and for the probe t...

SEJONG -- The Yoon Suk-yeol administration is considering easing the comprehensive real estate tax rate for home owners holding a single unit to a considerable extent, starting this year. According to officials at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the government is moving to scale back their tax burden to the level in 2020. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho was quoted ...

Maneesh will lead all the go-to-market initiatives at LambdaTest as the company looks to massively scale its growth NOIDA, India and SAN FRANCISCO , May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Maneesh Sharma , previously GitHub General Manager for India , has joined LambdaTest, a leading test orchestration and execution platform, as its Chief Operating Officer. Maneesh will lead all the go-to-market ...

When children get together to play, it is inevitable that there is one child who is the least skilled or younger than the rest -- especially if a younger sibling has followed their brother or sister out to play. Typically, these children are picked last to play on a team, or they could be left out altogether if there are an odd number of players for a game that calls for equal numbers. Korean ch...

Ha predicted that millennials’ preference for experiences will likely continue to fuel the local luxury fashion market’s growth. But since the prices of global luxury goods are expected to surge with rising demand, Ha believes that high-end fashion rental services and secondhand dealings are likely to accelerate their growth. This idea led to the launch of the 79,000 won ($62.30) monthly rental ...

SK Group, South Korea‘s second-largest conglomerate by assets, disclosed Monday actions to create social value and tools to measure how much impact it has generated through 2021 in numbers. The group with its subsidiaries contributed 18.4 trillion won ($14.5 billion) to issues such as unemployment, climate change, phone scams, blood shortages, car accidents due to drowsy driving, among others. T...

One of the key moments of last week’s summit talks between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and US President Joe Biden was the two signing a semiconductor wafer, not a visitors’ book, during their visit to Samsung Electronics’ chip manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Friday. It was the first time that the wafer, produced by Samsung’s new 3 nanometer technology, was unveil...

The number of visitors to Cheong Wa Dae totaled 377,888 in the 13 days it was open to the public, from May 10 to Sunday morning. More than 5 million people have applied for a tour so far, according to the CHA. “The new team consists of seven members from the CHA, and five members dispatched from the presidential office, for now.” a CHA official told The Korea Herald, Monday. The public opening,...

- 10 leading startups from Southeast Asia will be speaking at the event. - TOKYO , May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "CyberAgent Pitching Arena", our largest global startup event connecting startups in Southeast Asia with investors in Japan and abroad, will be held online at the end of May. Investors can apply here: https://forms.gle/98X5jthvGt7znBXh7 "CyberAgent Pitching Arena" is the gl...

South Korean robotics maker Rainbow Robotics said Monday that it recorded 3.6 billion won ($2.8 million) in sales in the first quarter this year, up 182 percent on-year. The Korean robot maker said the local market’s demand for collaborative robots that work with humans has pulled up its sales, as well as increased exports of its device that tracks certain targets with accuracy to the global mar...

“The Korean word ‘nangman’ translates into ‘romance,’ but I think there’s a huge difference between the two. Romance could mean many things, and the biggest thing is the idea of ‘longing for the past.’ Looking to the past that was more filled with romance, to be specific,” he said. Memories are cherished in various ways, and the singer stores his youth and romance in musical archives by taking h...

South Korean furniture and home appliance brand Coway said Friday that it has launched a new customizable bed frame product to reflect consumer trends shifting towards personalization. The product, Coway My Frame, allows consumers to customize the bed’s color, height and design. They can choose from a wide range of color and style combinations for the bed frame‘s headboard and sideboard, accordi...