SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Palace Museum of Korea (NPMK) announced on Monday that it opened an online exhibition showroom enabling users to take a full glance at about 800 royal relics held at the museum. The online museum leveraged virtual reality (VR) technology to bring the museum’s seven permanent exhibition rooms [...]
GUNSAN, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The wall surrounding an elementary school in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, has been painted with images of members of the K-pop supergroup BTS. Lee Jong-bae, a graffiti artist from the city, painted the faces of each BTS member on the wall, which can be recognized from afar. Since 2021, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A district in the southwestern part of London will designate Kimchi Day for the first time in Europe. The Royal Borough of Kingston, the district with the largest Korean community in Europe, announced on Monday (local time) that it will designate Nov. 22 as Kimchi Day and celebrate it [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most people in cafes, offices and schools in South Korea kept wearing their face masks Monday, the first day of the lifting of a mandate for indoor places. Starting midnight, the government lifted most mandatory indoor mask-wearing rules after more than two years, except at hospitals, pharmacies and on [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea reached yet another record low in November, data showed Thursday, reflecting the country’s dire population crisis. A total of 18,982 babies were born in November, plunging 4.3 percent from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Se-hee has made New Year’s resolutions to reduce social media use and read more books, but it was not easy for her to find dedicated time for reading after work. The 38-year-old office worker searched for an affordable, feasible way to stick with her goal and began subscribing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of basketball merchandise have surged ever since “The First Slam Dunk,” a Japanese animated film based on the cartoon popular in the 1990s, hit the theaters. South Korean online shopping mall SSG.com saw its basketball-related sales from Jan. 11-18 jumped by 26 percent from last year for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History has recently changed the media art works being displayed on the exterior wall of its building to ones highlighting the history and the country’s national heroes using new technologies. One of the two 3D effect videos unveiled Monday shows important moments in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Iconic South Korean actress Yun Jung-hee, who had long suffered Alzheimer’s disease, has died in France at the age of 79. She died in Paris on Thursday (local time), a movie industry official said. Her family did not release an official statement. Born in 1944 in the southeastern port [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Disneyland Resort in the U.S. state of California is hosting a traditional Korean performance in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Every year, Disneyland invites South Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese communities that celebrate the Lunar New Year to host traditional dance and music performances. This year, the festival [...]