Expanding the high-tech sector will be the way to ensure sustainable economic growth, and the government will ease rules to make that happen, President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team said Monday at a press briefing amid concerns over shrinking economic growth. “Building on the high-tech sector involves two things: We help the existing industries go high-tech or go green and digital, becau...

A sustainability-themed virtual development project building a better tomorrow HONG KONG , April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal Hotels Group (or the "Group", Stock Code 78) today announced its entrance into the metaverse with MetaGreen, a project to develop an ESG (environmental, social, and governance) themed plot of "LAND" in The Sandbox, a leading decentralised gaming virtual world and sub...

SEOUL, South Korea , April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr Carsten Lienemann (51) has been appointed Head of Korea on April 1, 2022 . He is responsible for all Korean entities of DEKRA Group. Mr Lienemann is an Economist with studies in Germany and Spain . After working at Fraunhofer-Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) in IT research, workflow management and wearable comp...

Hyundai Motor currently runs connected car service application called Bluelink, a complimentary option for up to three years. Bluelink offers navigation, music streaming, remote control and vehicle management. While the Korean carmaker’s service is quite limited to in-car infotainment programs which can be updated wireless via Over The Air (OTA) software updates, German carmaker Mercedes-Benz ha...

Neymar Jr. becomes e.GO Mobile ' s global brand ambassador. The partnership, named ' Green On and Off-the-Pitch ', underscores e.GO Mobile ' s focus on driving truly-sustainable and emission-free mobility around the globe. Neymar Jr. will unveil the company's 2022 model, e.wave X, in an exclusive event on May 05 th in Berlin, Germany . e.GO Mobile will also collaborate on a number...

With the world slowly phasing into a post-COVID-19 pandemic era, Sollute Study Abroad Business Group is to arrange educational camps in Canada and New Zealand for teenagers this summer. Sollute Study Abroad Business Group is an education company that arranges camps for youths in English-speaking countries in partnership with local education offices and schools since 2014. Some 1,050 teenagers pa...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands , April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEG Asset Management Limited (IDEG), a professional digital asset manager, announced today that it has launched the IDEG Terra Enhanced Tracker SP as part of its growing T-I-M-E-S product shelf of thematic digital asset funds. The launch marks the first-of-its-kind product to enter the market and follows closely the recent lau...

“March for the Beloved” was written in 1982 for a spirit wedding of Park Gi-soon, a labor rights activist who founded a night school for laborers, and activist Yoon Sang-won, who ran the night school after Park died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the shool in the winter of 1978. Yoon passed away during the 1980 Democratic Uprising that took place in the southwestern city of Gwangju. The song has...

A seminar that will shed light on the current state and future of Korean culture will take place online Wednesday, the organizers said Monday. Co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Tourism Organization, the seminar, titled “The Spirit of the Times as Reflected in K-Culture” will start with a keynote speech from Pier Luigi Sacco, a professor of cultural economics at I...

“By singing along and dancing, Koreans have tried to build solidarity within their community. Also, they have a craving for collective joy. Doing something ‘together’ both in times of crisis and peace means a lot to Koreans,” Lee said. By Choi Jae-hee ( cjh@heraldcorp.com )

“I wanted to see the reaction. I wanted them to hear what I wanted to say,” Sol said. “I could see the judge being convinced by what I had written. When we had a drink after that scene, the actor who played the judge said he actually was convinced and I felt relieved.” Toward the end of the interview, Sol encouraged moviegoers to watch the film, despite the disturbing scenes. “I think it is imp...

With the ticking time bomb of climate change, more young activists are feeling an urgent need to speak up and take action. In light of the Earth Day which fell on Friday this year, The Herald Business and nonprofit organization Green Environment Youth Korea held an online roundtable session with young environmental activists across Asia, sharing their experiences and thoughts. Nurul Sarifa from...

South Korean stocks fell for a second straight session to retreat more than 1.5 percent Monday, as worries over the US Federal Reserve signaling an aggressive rate hike next week dampened investor sentiment. The local currency fell against the US dollar. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kospi) closed down 1.76 percent, or 47.58 points, to 2,657.13. Trading volume was heavy at 988.3 million...

Han, 72, has denied several allegations in regards to conflicts of interest, having served many high-ranking government positions, including as the prime minister and finance minister in the past. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol named Han as the prime minister for his new Cabinet on April 3. Among the controversies surrounding Han is how he took hefty salaries totaling 1.8 billion won ($1.46 milli...

The entrance to a joint brick-and-mortar branch launched by Hana Bank and Woori Bank is seen in Shinbong-dong of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, on Monday. It is the first such joint branch in the local banking industry that has seen a growing number of closures in recent years with lenders focusing on mobile and online businesses. The idea of opening a co-branch is to offset customer inconvenience, p...