SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The happiness index, representing the level of life satisfaction, remains low among South Korean adults. According to a report from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, a research team conducted a study of 226,545 adults over 19 years of age who participated in the community health survey in [...]
BUAN, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean organizers of the 25th World Scout Jamboree have touted the quadrennial global event as a cultural Olympics for youth expected to provide opportunities for young Scouts to learn about different cultures and build friendships through outdoor camping and cultural activities. But the event, which drew about 43,000 [...]
BUAN, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The 25th World Scout Jamboree officially took off Wednesday, with about 43,000 young Scouts from 158 countries gathered at a massive campsite in Saemangeum Reclaimed Area on the southwestern coast. The opening ceremony for the world jamboree, dubbed the “cultural Olympics for youth,” began with representative Scouts taking an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The culture ministry said Wednesday it will run the Korean pavilion and host a K-pop concert during the 2023 World Scout Jamboree to help increase the participants’ awareness of the culture of the host country. The 25th edition of the world’s largest youth camping festival opened in Saemangeum, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A ship carrying the Joseon Tongsinsa, a diplomatic delegation sent by Korea’s Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) to Japan, set sail from Busan on Tuesday. Restored by the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage in 2018, the ship arrived at Hitakatsu Port in Tsushima, Japan on the same day. On [...]
BUAN, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The World Scout Jamboree, the largest international Scout event, kicked off in Saemangeum, a reclaimed land area on the southwestern South Korean coast, on Tuesday, bringing together over 43,000 young Scouts from 158 countries. The 25th edition of the world jamboree will continue through Aug. 12 in the Saemangeum [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Seoul Light DDP” light show has won a prize at the Red Dot Design Award 2023, one of the three most prestigious design awards in the world, in the “Brand & Communication Design” category, the Seoul Design Foundation said Monday. Seoul Light DDP, held every winter since 2019, [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A sculpture that recreates the barbed wire from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula has been displayed near the Memorial of the Berlin Wall in Germany. The sculpture, titled “A Leap of Faith,” is created by Korean artist Cha Joo-man and spans 42 meters in length. It [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Argentina on Tuesday (local time) held an opening ceremony for the exhibition “Illustrations for Korean Picture Books” by acclaimed author and illustrator Baek Heena. The exhibition was presented under the title “Reading Korean Stories through Pictures.” Baek, the 2020 laureate of the Astrid Lindgren [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hanwha Group has finalized the agreement with the Centre Pompidou in France to establish the museum’s offshoot branch in Seoul, with the opening set for late 2025, the energy-to-defense conglomerate said Friday. The formal contract was signed Thursday, under which Hanwha is given the licensing rights to [...]