BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Graffiti works by world-class artists will be painted at Huinnyeoul Culture Village in Busan. As a special exhibition of Art Busan 2019, an annual international art fair, Art Show Busan announced on Thursday that it will hold a mural installation art exhibition jointly with “POW! WOW! Korea” at the [...]
BONGHWA, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Two tigers from Seoul Grand Park Zoo have joined others at the tiger’s forest in the Baekdudaegan National Arboretum in Bonghwa County, North Gyeongsang Province. The arboretum announced on Thursday that Seoul Grand Park donated two Siberian tigers and successfully transferred them to the tiger’s forest as part of [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Empire State Building, a landmark of New York City, turned purple to mark the visit of the K-pop group BTS. On Tuesday (local time), BTS visited the Empire State Building before appearing on the live radio show of iHeartMedia, the largest radio station in the U.S. In response, [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., jointly with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Easy Traffic Co., has introduced an emergency vehicle preemption (EVP) system, a priority traffic light control software that extends green lights to allow ambulances to pass without delay. The traffic light control center receives GPS data from emergency vehicles [...]
POHANG, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest fireworks festival will be held in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province. The city of Pohang and the Pohang Cultural Foundation will be hosting the 2019 Pohang International Fire and Light Festival from Friday to Sunday at Hyungsangang Park. The festival will consist of a variety of performances [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea unveiled its “tobacco endgame” plan that calls for adopting uniform, plain packaging for all cigarettes and more graphic warning labels to push people to quit smoking, the government said Tuesday. The comprehensive endeavor, reached by the public health policy review committee, aims to lower the smoking rate [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor ministry said Tuesday some small business owners responded to steep hikes in the minimum wage by firing workers, in its first official statement about the impact of the recent wage raises on employment. Between November 2018 and April, the government conducted an in-depth interview survey on four [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop star Psy will return to the forefront of the K-pop scene with a new album in early July, his management agency P Nation said Tuesday. “Psy will return with his ninth full-length album in early July … and premiere (the album) in the 2019 Swag Show,” the agency [...]
ANDONG, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — In an apartment in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, residents have been raising a pet pig weighing 300 kilograms, prompting administrative authorities to rescue the pig. The rescue came at the request of the pig’s owners, who were unable to bring the pig out of their home due to its [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the enactment of a new provision that enables value appreciation of chattel mortgages, for items such as factory machinery, when Internet of Things (IoT) systems are in place to manage them, South Korean banks are offering various IoT-based mortgage loan products and services. The Korea Federation of Banks [...]