SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cultural Heritage Administration announced that it will begin nighttime tours of Changdeokgung Palace on April 4. The Moonlight Tour at Changdeokgung Palace, hosted by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation, will be available from April 4 to June 9, and August 22 to October 27. The program will be [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Monday that it would include a voice-recognition interactive personal assistant service on the new Sonata, which will be released on Thursday, using Kakao’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform called ‘Kakao i.’ Hyundai and Kakao have been carrying out a joint project to use a variety [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of Hue, a city in Vietnam, became deeply concerned after the city was offered a large statue as a gift from Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province. According to a Vietnamese local newspaper on Saturday, Mayor Cho Kwang-han of Namyangju proposed to the city that he would present ‘Greeting Man’, a [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — “The King’s Language”, a play about Joseon Dynasty King Sejong, and how he created Hangul, the Korean alphabet, will be staged at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles on March 22 (local time). The play will be performed in pansori, a traditional Korean genre of musical storytelling. The play [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A snowballing sex and corruption scandal involving K-pop stars has brought to light the hidden dark side of the K-pop industry, and dealt the most devastating blow yet to K-pop’s breakneck growth into a lucrative, roaring international business. Seungri, of boy band BIGBANG, and singer-songwriter and TV personality Jung [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Reversing its earlier denial, the management agency of Lee Jong-hyun, a member of K-pop rock band CNBLUE admitted Friday that the singer was involved in a widening sex scandal surrounding fellow K-pop stars. “Lee Jong-hyun is (admitting) that he deserves criticism for watching videos on KakaoTalk, disparaging women and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military will seek to employ virtual reality, artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies for field training, defense operations and troop welfare, Seoul’s defense ministry said Friday. Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo convened a session of his ministry’s “smart defense innovation” panel to discuss how to capitalize on such [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Rumors are spreading that U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) is conducting ‘biochemical experiments’ at Busan’s Pier 8, angering residents who are calling for more information to be revealed and the program to be shut down entirely. The Nam District Residents Committee staged a protest in front of the pier on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Noksapyeong Station, once a hollow subway station without any decorative features, will be renovated into a public art gallery. Seoul’s city government and Seoul Metro opened the new Noksapyeong Station Underground Art Garden on Thursday, seven months after the construction began in August last year. Noksapyeong Station first [...]
CHEONGJU, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — March 14 is commonly known as White Day for many, an occasion where loved ones share chocolates with one another. But for some, the day is also known as Pi Day. Pi Day commemorates Pierre Jartoux, a Jesuit missionary who rediscovered the mathematical constant that is a ratio of [...]