[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Citibank Korea Inc.(CEO Yung-Ku Ha, www.citibank.co.kr) offers special discount on Premium Dining to all Citi credit card customers until February 28. Any Citi credit card customer can enjoy 30% discount at Oriox, an international buffet restaurant run by Ourhome, in addition to 20% discount on lunch menu, Hansang Cha-rim(Chungdam Sonsuheon) and Happy Chuga Babsang(Yeoksam Sonsuheon), at a premium Korean restaurant also run by Ourhome. Citibank Premium Dining manager says that “Oriox and Sonsuheon discount promotion is well suited for New Year‘s gathering mostly taking pl
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]KT (Chairman and CEO Suk-Chae Lee, www.kt.com) announced a grand launch of “Genie K-pop”, the digital music and contents service based on smart phones, in 45 countries across 6 continents including the United States, France and India. This is the first time that a domestic smart phone-only music service was launched as a global service. “Genie”, established by KT in partnership with KMP Holdings (music distributor of 7 major Korean record labels including SM, YG, JYP, Media Line, Star Empire, Union CAN and Music Factory), made a grand entry to the global markets only 9 mo
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]“The greatest trick the devil has ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist” -- The Usual Suspects But Draghi convinced the markets the OMT did exist in September without activating it. What ensued thereafter was a virtual easing, with peripheral bonds, equity indices and euro currency moving from strength to strength. Euro is powered up (highest daily percentage gain since September 7, 2012) after the ECB press conference revealed that none of the governing council members called for a rate cut at today‘s meeting, which added to the currency’s earlier gains t
[NBC-1TV 박승훈 기자]중앙재난안전대책본부(차장 이기환 소방방재청장)에서는 1.15일, 남부지방의 기습폭설로 인한 도심지 차량통행 마비 및 교통사고를 가정하여 대구광역시 수성구 달구벌대로에서 현장 대응훈련을 실시하였다. 중앙재난안전대책본부에서 주최하고 대구광역시에서 주관한 합동훈련에는 대구경찰청, 대구소방본부, 수성구청, 501여단, 수성경찰서, 수성소방서, 한국도로공사경북본부, 건설기계협회대구지회 등 10개 기관이 참여하였으며, 부산·울산·대구·광주·경남 등 지자체 관련 공무원들도 참관 하였다. 이번 훈련은 지난 12.28일 대구 등 남부지방에 60년 만에 내린 기습폭설로 도심지 교통대란과 크고 작은 차량 추돌사고로 인한 부상자 발생 등 많은 시민들이 불편을 겪은 사례를 거울삼아 유사 재난발생시 신속히 대응할 수 있도록 훈련의 현실성을 높였으며 또한, 최근 빈번하게 발생하는 극한 폭설발생을 가정한 실제와 같은 현장훈련을 통해 제설작업과 구조 활동을 위한 인력·장비 지원 등 민·관·군 긴급응원체계 및 신속한 재난현장 대응 능력에 중점을 두고 훈련을 실시하였다. 중앙재난안전대책본부(차장 이기환 소방방재청장)은 “올 겨울은 유난히 춥고 눈이 많이 오는 만큼
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Lloyd George Management (LGM), a member of BMO Global Asset Management, has surpassed US$250 million in assets under management for its Frontier Markets equity strategy. Frontier Markets consist of countries with market-oriented economies in the early stages of economic development, reflecting many of the same characteristics of the original Global Emerging Markets - such as China and India - some 20 years ago. Since its launch in December 2011, LGM‘s Frontier Markets strategy composite has returned 42.9 percent (gross of all fees, in USD terms to December 31, 2012)(1), w
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]City Index Asia, Singapore -- We started the New Year with the single biggest theme in Asia -- Japan. The post Abe election period has been marked by a steady market rally in the Nikkei and significant weakness in the Japanese Yen. After welcoming its new prime minister after a snap election in December, Japan is hoping it will finally hoist itself out of recession -- but the nation‘s ongoing territorial dispute with China over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea could drag out the country’s economic contraction. Bloomberg reports that Japanese car sales are struggl
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Tesco shares rallied close to 3% on Thursday after the world's third largest retailer reported its strongest sales growth for three years for the key December period. Tesco reported like for like sales growth of 1.8%, which was above the top end of market expectations of 1.55 and showed a good recovery from a sales decline of 0.5% in the third quarter. We should, however, remember that whilst the first segment of the fourth quarter has shown a marked bounce back, we must wait to see whether this sales strength can be continued into the tail end of the quarter and indeed t
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]DirectTrack X (DTX), the next generation of the industry‘s pioneer affiliate tracking software, is now launched, live, and available for use. This release of DirectTrack X marks the most significant product launch in the company’s history and is the result of years of development and unprecedented collaboration between DirectTrack and its customers. “DirectTrack X embodies a new class of performance marketing software that revolutionizes the way networks, advertisers, and brands gather, analyze, and act upon the constant stream of big data,” said George Bordo, General Man