[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Crown Haitai Confectionery Chairman Yoon Young-dal has been appointed as co-chairman of the 2025 Yeongdong World Traditional Korean Music Expo. The Yeongdong World Traditional Music Expo Organizing Committee has appointed Chairman Yoon Yeong-dal as the civilian co-chairman of the organizing committee to successfully host the world’s first traditional music expo in Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do in September next year. The appointment ceremony held at the Chungcheongbuk-do Provincial Office on the 26th was attended by Governor Kim Yeong-hwan of Chungcheongbu
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] SPC Group's Paris Baguette has entered the Vancouver area by opening its 9th Canadian store, 'Coquitlam', and its 10th store, 'Alberni St.' Paris Baguette is rapidly expanding across Canada, opening stores in major cities including Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. In the case of the Coquitlam branch, a long line of nearly 100 people formed before business began on the opening day, the 20th (local time), and the response was so hot that about 4,500 pieces of bread and cake were sold. Vancouver stores introduced pastries such as chausson aux pommes, a French-st
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Among the major Asian stock markets this year, Taiwan ranked first with remarkable strength. On the other hand, the Korean stock market, represented by KOSPI and KOSDAQ, showed the lowest rate of return. The US broadcast CNBC reported on the 23rd (local time) that the Taiwan Straits Times Index rose 28.85% this year, the largest increase among 11 major Asia-Pacific stock indices. Following the Straits Times Index, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index (+16.63%), Singapore Straits Times Stock Exchange (+15.78%), Japan Nikkei 225 Stock Average (15.65%), and China CSI 3
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Group New Jeans and singer Lim Young-woong took first place in the singers in their 30s and under and 40s and over, respectively, for the year 2024. Gallup Korea conducted a three-stage survey from July to November 25, asking 5,281 people nationwide (excluding Jeju) aged 13 to 39 and 3,110 people in their 40s or older, to name up to three of their favorite Korean pop singers/groups who were active this year. Gallup Korea divided the survey into those in their 30s and younger and those in their 40s and older to compensate for the shortcomings of the low birth
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] The industry with the highest sales per franchise in Korea is pharmacies that sell medicine, which was tallied at 1.3 billion won per year. In addition, convenience stores were found to have the largest number of franchise stores. On December 24, Statistics Korea announced the '2023 Franchise (Franchise) Survey Results (Tentative)' containing the above information. The number of franchisee employees last year was 1,012,452, a 7.4% increase from a year ago (942,705). The number of franchisee employees increased by 24% in five years from 816,420 in 2018. Total
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] South Korea has entered a 'super-aging society'. The proportion of the registered population aged 65 or older has exceeded 20%. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on December 24, the number of registered residents aged 65 or older as of the previous day was 10,244,550, accounting for 20.0% of the total registered residents (51,221,286). The United Nations (UN) classifies a society as an aging society when the population aged 65 or older accounts for 7% or more of the total population, an aged society when it accounts for 14% or more, and a s
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Il Dong Bioscience (CEO Oh-Hyeon Ban), a subsidiary of Il Dong Pharmaceutical Group, announced on the 24th that it has obtained 'NON-GMO' certification for its functional raw material probiotics. NON-GMO refers to products, goods, raw materials, and materials that do not contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Ildong Bioscience recently received NON-GMO certification for 20 of its probiotic strains from the NON-GMO PROJECT, the most credible verification organization in North America. According to the certification criteria of the NON-GMO PROJECT, ▲GMO
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Famous Japanese rice bowl chains such as Yoshinoya and Matsuya are causing controversy by translating the Korean word 'kimchi' into the Chinese word 'paocai' (泡菜). You can see this mistranslation when you change the language on the kiosk menu where customers place orders to Chinese. Seo Kyung-deok, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, said, "I found out about it after many netizens reported it to me, and I immediately sent a protest email because the chain has stores all over the world, not just in Japan." In the protest email, Professor Seo said, "Kim
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Korea's leading company POSCO was selected as the number one 'most competitive steel company in the world.' World Steel Dynamics (WSD), a global steel analysis organization, announced the results of the 2024 World-Class Steelmaker Rankings on December 22 (New York local time). Second place goes to Nucor from the United States. Third to fifth places are Nippon Steel, ArcelorMittal, and BaoWu Steel from China. ArcelorMittal is a multinational company created in 2006 through the merger of Indian steel company Mittal Steel and Luxembourg's Arcelor. The 6th to 10t
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] New Balance has joined the ranks of brands that have achieved '1 trillion won in sales' as a single domestic fashion brand, and is now competing for the top spot along with Nike, Adidas, The North Face, and Uniqlo, who are already in the 1 trillion won club. Nike, the top sports brand in Korea, is estimated to have sales of around 2 trillion won this year. E-Land World (CEO Dong-ju Cho) announced on the 24th that its global sports brand New Balance has surpassed 1 trillion won in domestic sales this year. In 2008, the first year that E-Land took over New Bala
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