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Kia Motors appoints Karim Habib as Senior Vice President and Head of Kia Design Center
Karim Habib will oversee design of new vehicles and devise future design direction for Kia Motors Habib to be based at Kia’s Design Center in Namyang, Korea from beginning in October Habib brings with him over twenty years’ premium brand…
Mobile phone shock Horror! You could be risking your life by answering a cell phone whilst on charge… Industry scare-mongering or another urban legend?
NO PHONES IN KITCHEN PLEASE* Do you make calls or receive calls in your kitchen? My name is Dr. Ademola. Just 3 days ago my husband who also is a doctor shared the sad incidents of 6 individuals who were…
ILO calls for new strategies to help SMEs get loans
Bank loans can help firms improve job quality and productivity, but are often difficult to get for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Consequently, policy-makers should look into ways to make it easier for SMEs to access such external funding. A…
Google releases millions of bad drawings for you (and your AI) to paw through
By Devin Coldewey from TechCrunch Back in November, Google showcased a few of its funky machine learning experiments, and among them was Quick, Draw! (their bang, not mine) — a game where you sketch something and an image recognition system…
Koreans spend more than $3,000 a year on insurance [but Cayman Islands tops the list at $12,619]
From The Korea Herald Koreans paid more than a combined $3,000 per policy holder in insurance premiums for the year ended in March, a market researcher said Wednesday. Koreans’ insurance density stood at $3,034 in the financial year 2015-16, compared…
SK group in crisis due to poor corporate ethics, chairman’s alleged tax evasion [Cayman Islands]
By Huh Sung-soo From Business Korea SEOUL, KOREA: SK Group, the nation’s third-largest conglomerate has the most offshore companies in tax havens among the nation’s top four business groups, according to market data. SK Chemicals, a chemical unit of the…
Recipe of the week
Bulgogi + Scallion Pancakes + Quesadillas = The Ultimate Fusion Snack By Morgan Eisenberg From Serious Eats Crispy, cheesy, and intensely savory. Three snacking worlds collide. [Photographs: Morgan Eisenberg] Korean tacos have taken a little bit of Korea, a little…
Heart-breaking moment five-year-old girl finds her missing pet dog Flower… being sold ready-cooked at Vietnamese stall
By Tracy You For Daily Mailonline UK Picture has gone viral of a little girl crying beside her roasted pet dog The five-year-old is believed to be living in a village in northern Vietnam Her pet ‘Flower’ had gone missing…
Synthetic biology could open a whole new can of worms
By Desmond Brown From Caribbean360 PYEONGCHANG, Republic of Korea, Wednesday October 8, 2014, IPS – Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is the world’s leading producer of vetiver. In the southwest of the country, vetiver production is hard…
