[NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The 16th International Congress of Oriental Medicine will be held on Sep 14th (Fri) - 16th (Sun), 2012 at COEX in Seoul co-hosted by organizing committee of the World Traditional Medicine Expo 2013 and the International Society of Oriental Medicine (ISOM) and organized by the Association of Korean Medicine (AKOM). The congress on “The Future of Medicine, Traditional Medicine” will review the value of traditional medicine and find the right place of it in global health cooperated with WHO and Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea. The International Congress of Oriental Medi
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) and its subsidiaries BMO Financial Corp. (“BFC”) and BMO Harris Bank N.A. (“BHB”) today announced the Purchase Prices (defined below) for the previously announced cash tender offers to repurchase certain of BFC‘s and BHB’s outstanding notes. BFC is offering to repurchase, for cash, any and all of its 7.500% Subordinated Notes due 2013, and BHB is offering to repurchase, for cash, any and all of its 4.850% Subordinated Bank Notes due 2015 and its 5.000% Subordinated Bank Notes due 2017 (collectively, and together with the 7.500% Subor
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea Inc.(CEO Yung-Ku Ha, www.citibank.co.kr) offers free bottle of sweet sparkling wine to all Citicard customers(Citi BC, Coprporate card included) for 1 month from August 1(Wed) to August 31. This joint promotion with Riunite, an Italian causal wine, will help Citicard customers wash away the summer heat by offering a free bottle(187ml) of sweet sparkling wine, Riunite Bianco or Riunite Lambrusco, when spending 20,000 KRW or more at School Food, a premium snack brand. 28 School Food stores in Seoul and Kyunggi areas will take part in this event. Promotion off
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Recently, secondary infection caused by reuse of disposable medical device becomes a social issue in many countries. Especially when it comes to the blood drawing needle, medical institutions reuse it to get blood sample from multiple numbers of patient even without disinfection, and there are many cases reported that some patients share their blood drawing equipment with the others. Meanwhile, a medical device manufacturer BOSUNG MEDITECH(CEO Yun-Chul, Shin www.bsmeditech.com) developed blood drawing equipment SafeLan Pro® and all-in-one blood drawing needle, protective
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Sharyn Gol JSC (MSE: SHG) (“Sharyn Gol”) is pleased to announce that the Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism has accepted its Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the planned new open pit mine at the Shaazgait thermal coal deposit (“Shaazgait”). Following the recent approval of its Feasibility Study by the Mineral Resources Authority of Mongolia, Sharyn Gol has now received all government approvals necessary to launch operations at Shaazgait. The new opencast mine will enable Sharyn Gol to retain its role as a supplier of low ash, low sulfur, and high calori
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]US Airways (NYSE: LCC) has renewed its agreement with GuestLogix Inc. (TSX: GXI), the leading global provider of onboard retail and payment technology solutions to airlines and the passenger travel industry. The multi-year contract renewal, representing more than 50 million passenger-trips annually, will expand the relationship between US Airways and GuestLogix. In addition to using GuestLogix‘ core Onboard Retail Technology Platform for its buy-on-board program, US Airways will be upgrading its handheld point-of-sale devices, and implementing the Company’s new Global Pay
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]A ‘Urine Test’ is the essential course as undergoing a medical checkup because it is very important method of checking our physical health including obesity and diabetes. However, contemporary people are too busy to have a time for going to hospital. A healthcare device-specialized R&D company, DAE KYOUNG IND. CO.,LTD.(CEO, Lee Kyu-Dae, www.massagechair.co.kr ) announced that “we developed the world’s smallest and lightest portable urine analyzer KMD-8888 that allows you to easily diagnose diseases at home”. Meanwhile, urine analyzer has been troubled to carry on due to i
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Treatment System N Care appeals to various kinds of skin care shop, beauty shop, oriental medical clinic, and plastic surgery as well as scalp and hair clinics, scalp care instructor academy, scalp and hair product company, and hotel spa. N Care, developed by Spatech(CEO Lee, Joung-Dong, www.spatech.co.kr), is skin and scalp treatment system using Nano Technology; it granulates bioactive substance and active component into the product in smaller size than pore by using Nano-gun spray so as to permeate them deep into scarfskin when sprayed upon skin tissue. There has been
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]A Makgeolli brewer of Korea, Nakchun (CEO, Sung, Jae-Gi, www.nakchun.co.kr) started to sell two kinds of their Makgeolli products at Lotte Department Stores and Shinsegae Department Stores in Seoul and Gyeonggi areas. What they present at liquor shops in department stores now are ‘Pumpkin Makgeolli’ and ‘Cameo Makgeolli’ made of Gijangsoo – red clay sinking water – which contains minerals of red clay bedrock layer, and both of them are sterilized raw rice wine with 6 months of shelf life. Nakchun is the one and only brewer of Makgeolli by using Gijangsoo, whic
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Mr. Cho, Syung-Hyun, chairman of a medical appliance company, Nuga Medical Co., Ltd., (www.nuga.kr) was awarded the 51st ‘Honorary Korean Trader of the Month’ for his contribution in excellent actual exports. The 51st ‘Honorary Korean Trader of the Month’ Award was held in the Trade Center, Samseong-dong, Seoul on July 11th and it was jointly awarded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korean Trade Association, and Korea Economic Daily. ‘Honorary Korean Trader of the Month’ has been awarded since 1997 through strict screening by the screening committee on the export rec