SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of nine ancient private Confucian academies in the country, called “Seowon” in Korean, will again try to gain registration as a UNESCO World Heritage early next year, an official at the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) here said Monday. The decision was made a meeting of the CHA’s cultural assets [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in appointed two new ministers Friday, nearly completing the list of his first Cabinet. Paik Un-gyu was appointed the new minister of trade, industry and energy, with Park Neung-hoo appointed the new health and welfare minister in a ceremony held at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Actor Namkoong Min, who portrayed a righteous accountant fighting corruption in “Good Manager,” is returning to television next week as a slimeball tabloid reporter in SBS TV’s “Distorted.” “I wanted to take a break after ‘Good Manager.’ I thought I exhausted myself by portraying non-stop characters (in multiple works), [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Since Seocho became the first district in Seoul to introduce a three-strike system for construction noise last June, a number of building projects have been halted during the weekend and on holidays in a bid to tackle the issue of construction noise in the area. According to the Seocho District [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The music video for “Spring Day” by K-pop boy band BTS has topped 100 million views on YouTube, its agency said Thursday. The song, which was released in February, reached the milestone as of 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to Big Hit Entertainment. “Spring Day” is now the seventh track [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean actor Song Joong-ki on Wednesday applauded his fiance and fellow actress Song Hye-kyo’s decision to decline an ad sponsorship offer from Mitsubishi Motors over the company’s association with forced mobilization of Korean laborers during the second World War. “I first learned that Hye-kyo declined the offer from the news. [...]
ULSAN, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A new whale-themed 3D movie theater is set to open soon at Jangsaengpo in Ulsan, with the new complex boasting large circular screens that covering all of the interior walls, giving visitors a virtual experience of exploring the deep sea and observing whales up close. The ‘5D’ whale-watching theater can [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s no secret that South Korean media has had its share of stereotypical depictions of foreign cultures in the past. One of the more notable cases of cultural appropriation in recent years was of the generic rich Middle Eastern man, personified through the character “Mansour” on KBS 2TV’s “Gag [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean historical drama “A Taxi Driver” opens with Seoul taxi driver Kim Man-seop (Song Kang-ho) hilariously singing along with an iconic popular song of the ’80s behind the wheel. It’s May 1980, several days before the bloody crackdown of a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A wood museum in Incheon, west of Seoul, has been chosen for an architectural prize of a world authority, according to the awards’ website on Thursday. The World Architecture Community (WAC) announced “Mokyeonri: Kinetic Wood Museum” located in Incheon Grand Park in the port city as one of the [...]