Celebrities’ shopping malls punished for false hype
Popular Internet shopping malls owned by entertainers were slapped with hefty fines for running fraudulent promotional campaigns to lure customers and for refusing to process legitimate refund claims, the fair trade regulator said Monday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said six shopping malls were found guilty of violating the fair trade law and they were […]
Diablo 3 popularity waning fast
Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 has seen its popularity plummet due to “poor content.” “Diablo 3’s place is shaky,” said Kim Min-kyu, a cultural content professor at Ajou University over the phone, Monday. “It is hard to believe that it was made by the people who created World of Warcraft and the StarCraft series. The poor […]
Smartphones intimidate elderly
Park Hyung-tae recently bought a Galaxy Note from Samsung Electronics, but it’s hard to imagine the 69-year-old using it without assistance from his children. “It’s very complicated to use. All I can do without the help of my children is make and receive calls and send text messages,” he complained adjusting his glasses. “Another problem […]
NHN taking lead in messenger games
NHN is taking the lead in the messenger game market by releasing games via its mobile messenger service Line ahead of its competitors. The firm said Monday that its first game, Line Birzzle, has had over 2 million downloads a week after its release. NHN has opened a service platform called Line Channel accessible through […]
LG Scion gets 3-year jail term for embezzlment
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling to sentence a scion of the late LG Group founder Koo In-hwoi to a three-year prison sentence, Monday, on charges of stock manipulation and embezzlement. Koo Bon-hyun, a nephew of LG honorary Chairman Koo Cha-kyung, was convicted of pocketing some 13.9 billion won ($11.7 million) of illegal […]
USFK offers apology for handcuffing of Koreans
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USFK offers apology for handcuffing of Koreans
The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) apologized Sunday for the handcuffing of three Korean civilians by American troops during a dispute over parking outside a U.S. Air Force base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. USFK Deputy Ccommander Lt. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, said in a news conference, “I have ordered a full investigation of this incident. The individuals […]
Korean-Chinese being targeted for crackdown
130 rounded up in June alone A major crackdown is under way targeting Korean-Chinese here their advocates said Sunday. This could spook them into hiding and lead to a spike in illegal immigrants. Since January, the Ministry of Justice has detained about 1,500 Korean-Chinese laborers who used forged identities to enter the country or to […]
Eximbank CEO calls lenders ‘domesticated’
The head of one of the nation’s state-run lenders said that Korean banks should revamp their business models so as to better serve retail customers and play a bigger role in helping Korean companies overseas. He stressed that leading domestic lenders, such as KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori and Hana, should give up their interest margin- […]
Immigration process for investors to be shortened
More foreign investors are expected to enjoy a shortened immigration process from Monday, as the financial authorities in cooperation with the justice ministry plan to expand the scope of beneficiaries of the finance investor express card system. Financial Hub Korea (Fn Hub Korea) said they have revised the system to allow more overseas investors to […]
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