Fresh business opportunities
When business travelers take overseas trips to places where they have never been before, finding appropriate accommodation might be one of the talle..

How are real estate properties valued?
Many people who do not work in the property market are interested in real estate. I get a lot of questions that can be filtered into one simple quer..

Membership warehouse chain war
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KONA@I has high upside potential
KONA@I is a maker of specialized embedded software, which provides smart card-related total solutions. Smart cards, which are used in electronic IDs..

How do Korean builders stand out?
Ian Cowan, a managing director of the Seoul office at construction consultancy Dal-Sterling, was always wondering what made many major Korean builde..

London on rise but Beijing takes gold medal
With the eyes of the world focused on sporting and cultural achievement in London, we have taken a relatively informal look at the recent performanc..

Catch me if you can
Kim Ji-in, a 30-year-old office worker in Seoul, felt confused last week when she dropped by a convenience store nearby her office to buy a bottle o..

Should Korea welcome foreigners�� return?
When European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi promised on July 26 to do everything necessary to save the euro, money started flowing into ..

Innovation key to surviving cutthroat competition
Until a few years ago, the mobile phone market had multiple players �� Nokia, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Motorola, HTC, Sony Ericsson and ..