SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea’s biggest biannual fashion show, will kick off next week for a five-day run to showcase 21 Korean fashion houses, officials said Monday. The fashion week for the 2024 fall-winter season will run from Thursday to next Monday at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on January 28 that it is initiating a ‘City-District Integrated Link Service,’ enabling the borrowing and returning of toys and childcare items from the Seoul Toy Library located in Daebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, across all 25 district toy libraries in Seoul. The Seoul Toy Library, which first [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Arboreta and Gardens Institute (KOAGI), with support from the Korea Forest Service, has successfully created a Korean garden in Doha, Qatar, garnering significant attention. According to KOAGI on January 24, the garden, situated in Al Bidda Park at the 2023 International Horticultural Exhibition in Doha, has received positive [...]
DANYANG, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial Intelligence (AI) care robots have been found to significantly alleviate depression in the elderly, according to a study conducted in Danyang County, North Chungcheong Province. On January 24, Danyang County reported that after distributing AI care robots to 110 solitary seniors aged between 65 and 85 in early October [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean composer Unsuk Chin won the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, dubbed the Nobel Prize of classical music, Thursday, becoming the first Asian to do so. The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts announced that the 62-year-old musician was chosen as the [...]
SUWON, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Property has announced the upcoming grand opening of Starfield Suwon on January 26, heralding a new era of Starfield 2.0 tailored to the MZ generation (born early 1980s to early 2000s). Located in Jeongja-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Starfield Suwon spans eight floors underground and eight above ground, with a total [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Simmons has announced that its unique part-time job opportunity, the “Karrot Part-Time X Simmons Winter Sleep Job,” has reached an unprecedented application rate of 60,000 to 1. This distinctive job experience, located at Simmons Terrace in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, offers participants 3 million won for sleeping for one hour on a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea continued to experience a natural decline in it population in November as deaths continued to outnumber births, data showed Wednesday. A total of 17,531 babies were born in November, down 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. The latest tally marks [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Navigating human relationships is always challenging. Whether conflicts are evident or hidden, they are an inevitable part of our social existence, often leaving us with emotional scars. This makes maintaining a healthy distance crucial. In his bestseller “Reading Schopenhauer at Forty,” researcher Kang Yong-soo from the Korea University’s Institute of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The colossal tombstone of King Gwanggaeto the Great, undoubtedly the greatest conqueror in Korean history, has been restored digitally for display at a national museum in Seoul more than 1,600 years after its erection. The National Museum of Korea unveiled a digital reproduction of the Gwanggwato the Great Stele, [...]