SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon Hee has said she hopes to be a “K-culture salesperson” promoting Korean culture and art overseas, according to a recent interview with a U.S. media outlet. In the written interview with Artnet News, an online art journal, published Monday (local time), Kim also said she [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Art exhibitions are gaining popularity this year, with thousands of South Koreans flocking to art museums for large-scale exhibitions. The art industry reported that Maurizio Cattelan’s solo art exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul has been visited by 210,000 people since its opening in January. “Joseon [...]
YEOJU, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest pet-friendly complex is scheduled to open next month. On Wednesday, Gyeonggi Province announced that it will first open Area A, spanning 95,790 square meters, of the “Gyeonggi Pet Maru Yeoju.” This pet cultural space is built on a total area of 165,000 square meters in Sanggeo-dong, [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) —Gonzaga University, renowned for its dominance in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball, witnessed an extraordinary academic expedition as its students embarked on a journey to South Korea to immerse themselves in the study of Korean culture. This educational endeavor took a compelling turn as the students partook in a [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Kang Mi-sun, a principal ballerina at Universal Ballet, has shared the best female dancer award at the Benois de la Danse, one of the world’s most prestigious ballet awards. The South Korean dancer picked up the honor at the awards ceremony in Moscow on Tuesday (Moscow time), together with [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Acclaimed author Baek Heena’s picture books open the door to magic and wonder by telling imaginative stories through minutely constructed visual worlds, and the famous characters are ready to meet their readers in real life. Baek, the 2020 laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s most [...]
DAEGU, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A court has rejected an injunction request by merchant and church groups to ban an annual LGBTQ festival in Daegu, clearing the way for the event to take place in the heart of the southeastern city this weekend, judicial officials said Thursday. The Daegu District Court dismissed the injunction [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Film Archive said Wednesday it will showcase nine classic 3D films from the early days of Hollywood at Cinemateque KOFA in western Seoul from July 28 to August 12. These classic 3D films were initially created to address the crisis that theaters were facing during that time. [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean maintenance technology, utilized to restore the country’s national treasures, will support the preservation of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, one of the world’s oldest religious monuments. The Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation recently revealed plans to maintain the Preah Pithu monument group site and the Terrace of the Elephants at [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul International Book Fair, South Korea’s largest book fair, opened Wednesday with a rich and diverse selection of writers and publishers from around the world, featuring the latest literary trends. The book fair will run through Sunday at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern Seoul under [...]