Tteokbokki, odeng-tang, and bungeo-bbang are popular snacks found at street food shops. While they taste great and warm you up, they are also high in calories.
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China’s Lenovo a direct threat to Korean Android phones.
The global Android phone market continues to bloat with Lenovo’s purchase of Motorola from Google. China’s Lenovo, is quickly becoming a direct competitor to LG and Samsung. With the purchase of Motorola mobile, Lenovo becomes the third largest global smartphone maker, pushing LG to fourth place.
Lenovo’s purchase of Motorola from Google set them back $2.91-billion. Seems that Google had purchased Motorola simply to retain their phone patents. Interesting timing as Google recently announced a cross-licensing agreement with Samsung for 10-years.
South Koreans are world’s biggest drinkers (by a large margin).
It should come as no surprise to those who live here – measured in shots of spirits per week, not including beer, Korea tops the list of the heaviest drinkers in a list of 44 surveyed countries. The average Korean, based on the survey results, drinks 13.7 shots in a week, 97% of which is soju. Russia came in second and the US was ranked tenth. Survey by EuroMonitor.
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Government to issue annual Lunar New Year’s pardons.
Park Geun-Hye’s administration is on the brink of issuing 6,000 pardons for minor offenders in honor of the Lunar New Year. These pardons are a power of the President and are often handed out twice a year. This year was notable as she excluded politicians and high-profile businessmen.
Massive credit card breach affects 80mil. Korean accounts.
A Korean SW engineer leaked credit card information for 80 million accounts. This is a huge story since Korea only has a population of 50 million people.
Long lines are forming at bank branches as people try to cancel their credit cards. The leaked data comes from three credit card companies: KB Kookmin Card, NH NongHyup Card and Lotte Card. Many people are complaining about poor customer service as the website servers are overloaded and bank lines are extremely long. Foreigners are complaining that they’re received no information at all about the breach. Continue reading
Korean elderly no longer want to live with their children.
According to a recent survey of 38,000 Koreans, seven out of ten seniors would rather live alone than with their children. This reflects a growing desire to remain social and independent.
Koreans are the #1 movie audience worldwide.
Koreans watch more movies than people from any other country – even the U.S.