SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Shopping Co. said Wednesday it will exhibit an installation from renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma at its high-end department store in southern Seoul starting this week. The artwork, titled SU:M, will be on display at Lotte AVENUEL, the retailer’s luxury-brand department store, for the next five months starting [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A major contemporary art fair will open in the southeastern port city of Busan next month to showcase a variety of art pieces by both established and emerging artists from around the world, its organizer said Wednesday. The 12th Art Busan fair is scheduled to run from May 5-7 [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Web novel readers in South Korea are more likely to pay for content than webtoon readers, with the former group spending more on content on a monthly basis compared to the latter group, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey of 2,500 Koreans aged 15 to 49 conducted [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – “Jikji,” the world’s oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, will be put on public display in France for the first time in half a century. The National Library of France will present “Jikji” as part of its exhibition on the history of printing technology, set to run [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Traditional food once popular only among older generations is gaining popularity among the youth, including “yakgwa,” a deep-fried, wheat-based Korean confection. Yakgwa sales at convenience store chain CU between March 29 and April 5 jumped by 248.3 percent compared to last year. Its sales at GS25 also jumped by [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Raising big chick balloons and other Easter symbols, about 4,000 Christians marched in central Seoul on Sunday in South Korea’s first large-scale Easter parade. Paraders, some featuring a procession of the Ark of the Covenant and a cross structure and others with musical instruments and in inline skates and [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Growing concerns are being raised over the Japanese government’s apparent “regression in historical awareness.” This issue was highlighted once again with the approval of elementary school textbooks that contain deteriorated descriptions of forced labor and Dokdo, which may pose a significant obstacle to future Korea-Japan relations. Another issue that [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. city of Irvine, California has designated September 4 as Taekwondo Day, local Korean media said. Korean-American Irvine Vice-Mayor Tammy Kim delivered a frame carrying the Taekwondo Day resolution to Grandmaster Lee Dong-seop, head of Kukkiwon, at Irvine City Hall on Tuesday (local time). The city will hold [...]
GWANGJU, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Just like dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence, art has the power to change narratives and inspire people over time. Gwangju Biennale, a major art festival in Asia, brings water to the fore for this year’s event to address contemporary social issues and instill [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Church organizations are reluctant to penalize pastors who have committed sexual crimes, a civic group has claimed. The Korean Christian Alliance for Church Reform said that among 80 pastors who were convicted of sexual crimes between 2013 and 2022, only one of them has been penalized by church organizations. [...]