MADRID, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon-hee visited the Korean Cultural Center in Madrid on Tuesday and praised its staff for helping promote Korean culture. The Korean Cultural Center opened in the Spanish capital in 2011. Around 60 cultural programs are held at the center each year, including exhibitions, concerts, classes and [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Craft artworks nominated for one of the world’s most prestigious craft awards will be exhibited at the Seoul Museum of Craft Art next month, officials said Tuesday. The Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, launched in 2016 by Spanish luxury label Loewe, is the world’s most lucrative award for crafts people [...]
WASHINGTON, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Washington is offering a special program to those in the U.S. to learn how to sing and dance to K-pop music. The K-Pop Academy DC will offer dance and vocal training to those who wish to learn and experience the global phenomenon of K-pop music. [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Protestant churches are going all-out to bring back Christians who stayed away from onsite worship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Laity Ministry Development Center of the New Eden Church in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province and various parishes are visiting churchgoers’ homes and giving them handwritten letters, bible [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hong Kong will include Korean as one of the foreign languages in its university entrance exam starting in 2025, Seoul’s education ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said its National Institute for International Education and Hong Kong’s state examination board, Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, will soon sign a [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since China began to incorporate regional histories throughout the country’s current territory into national history, China’s distortion of Korean history has deepened, exacerbating the Korea-China dispute. “China’s five-year Northeast Project has ended, but the distorted perception towards Korean history, based on China’s territory-centric views, continues,” Kim Hyun-sook, a [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean animated films, “Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On” and “Persona,” have been awarded at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. According to the winner’s list Monday (Korean time), “Chun Tae-il,” a biopic on the Korean workers’ rights activist directed by Hong Jun-pyo, received the [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pianist Lim Yunchan has won the top prize in a prestigious international piano competition in the United States, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the 60-year-old contest, its website showed Sunday. Lim, the 18-year-old student of the Korea National University of Arts, clinched the gold in the finals [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of books being published on coding and data analysis that are needed for the creation of applications or programs using computer language is increasing rapidly in South Korea, data showed Thursday. The number of new books with keywords such as coding or data analysis in the IT [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has designated 23 more state-funded Korean language institutes abroad this year, the culture ministry said Thursday, as part of efforts to help more foreigners learn the Korean language and culture. The 23 new King Sejong Institutes will be located in 19 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe, [...]