SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The fashion industry expects this year’s fall-winter season to feature more traditional and timeless styles instead of bold and extravagant designs. This shift is influenced by the growing popularity of a more vintage look in fashion, often referred to as “quiet luxury”, with a focus on subtle elegance rather than flashy [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electricity consumption touched a record monthly high in December as the country was gripped by a nationwide cold wave and heavy snow, the power operator said Tuesday. The country’s average maximum power consumption stood at 82,716 megawatts (MW) last month, up 5.1 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of Starbucks customers have purchased cold drinks this year with the recent cold weather having little impact on the trend, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant said Thursday. Starbucks Coffee Korea reported a 76-percent increase in cold drink sales this year, up by 12 percent [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Outdoor equipment sales are on the rise amid warmer weather than usual, altering the food trends of the season. South Korean discount retailer Emart Inc. said Monday its camping equipment sales between Nov. 1-22 jumped by 86.3 percent from last year. Sorted by product, table sales jumped by 315.8 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ski resorts and winter festival organizers in Gangwon Province are concerned with the unseasonably warm weather as they prepare for the start of the winter season. The Korea Meteorological Administration said the average temperature in the province between Nov. 1-21 stood at 8.6 degrees Celsius, which was 2 degrees [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea enters its first end-of-year season without any social distancing rules in three years, a growing number of consumers are looking for short jackets and long boots to stay warm this winter. Online shopping mall Gmarket analyzed the increase in winter apparel sales from Oct. 12-Nov. 13 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Padded and non-padded coat sales are on the rise as more consumers are preparing for the early coming of winter. Shinsegae International Inc., the apparel arm of retail giant Shinsegae, said Wednesday that its fashion brands VOV, STUDIO TOMBOY, ILAIL, Della Lana and G-CUT’s sales between Oct. 1-23 jumped [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the scorching summer heat, there are an increasing number of people looking for so-called “opposite-season” apparel like padded and fur coats. Shinsegae Department Store opened up a premium pop-up store for padded coats that cost more than 1 million won (US$760) each in Hanam branch on July 15. [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — This winter’s flu season is likely to pass unnoticed again as influenza, a contagious respiratory disease that is most commonly seen in the winter, remains overwhelmed by COVID-19. The number of suspected flu patients per 1,000 outpatients stood at 3.7 persons in the eighth week of 2022 (Feb. 13-19), [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, is setting up plans to protecting animals and plants from the winter cold and snow. Starting this month, the park will turn on the heating systems for all zoo enclosures. Heating mats will be laid out in outdoor enclosures and [...]