SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Maison de la Corée at the International University Campus in Paris is turning into a promotional venue for South Korea. The dormitory is the latest building to be built on the campus. At the South Korea-France Summit in 2011, France made the first offer to improve housing conditions [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Walter Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University announced on Monday (local time) that it will host a conference under the theme of “The Future of Hallyu” on April 19. During this conference, Christopher Hanscom, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Kim Ju-oak, [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Ufan, a celebrated Korean minimalist painter and sculptor, is showcasing his iconic and latest artworks, which explore the relationship between space and time, in his first solo exhibition in South Korea in 12 years. The exhibition, titled “Lee Ufan,” opened at Kukje Gallery in downtown Seoul on Tuesday [...]
JINJU, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipal government of Jinju in South Gyeongsang Province said Monday that its Pavilion of Floating Lights won the “Honor” Award at the Canadian Wood Council’s Wood Design & Building Awards. The Pavilion of Floating Lights, completed in March last year, is a wooden building that was created by [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A large-scale artwork with an inscribed depiction of the Bible has been built in a cemetery in Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi Province. The artwork, made with stainless steel, is 83 meters wide and 7.7 meters high, with an inscription of 1,753 pages or 1.5 million letters of the Bible. The [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The most exact variation known to date of “Daedongyeojido,” a famous large-scale map of the Korean Peninsula created in the 19th century by Korean cartographer Kim Jeong-ho, has returned from Japan. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) unveiled the map to the media Thursday as the newly found edition draws [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Young diplomats from 25 countries in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East have been given opportunities to enjoy Korean culture. The Korean Culture program held at the Institute of International Education of Kyung Hee University last week is one of many Korean language and cultural programs provided by [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Youn Ji-won is a cellist and a self-taught art curator who thinks looking at paintings in museums is not enough and wants to invite people to the boundless art world in unconventional ways. Youn has created her own term, “lecture concert,” to select artworks under a theme, tell stories [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans believe that the Catholic Church is a rich and isolated institution, a poll showed Thursday. The Catholic Pastoral Institute of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 South Koreans over 19 years of age, in which 64.6 percent of those in their 20s thought of the Catholic [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Hanwha Group said Monday it has signed a preliminary agreement with the Centre Pompidou, a world-renowned modern art museum in France, to establish an offshoot branch in Seoul. The partnership will give Hanwha the licensing rights to use the French museum’s properties for four years upon the [...]