SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A dozen opposition and independent lawmakers denounced the National Assembly secretariat Monday for removing artworks satirizing the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol from a planned exhibition at the Assembly. About 80 pieces of art, including one showing a naked President Yoon brandishing a sword with the first lady, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Catholics held a Mass on Saturday in memory of late former Pope Benedict XVI, remembering and praising, in particular, his past keen interest in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula. The Mass, organized by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea (CBCK) and Catholic priests in the country, [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The western port city of Incheon is setting out to launch a special project aimed at turning the city’s international business district of Songdo into a bilingual city where you can use both Korean and English. The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZ) announced on Thursday that it made [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Genesis BBQ Co., the operator of BBQ Chicken, a South Korean fried chicken franchise, said Thursday it will provide free fried chicken for a year to an American couple who sheltered a group of Korean tourists stranded in a blizzard last month. “Genesis BBQ will gift the Alexander and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean art market surpassed 1 trillion won (US$782 million) in total sales for the first time in 2022 on strong sales of artworks through galleries and art fairs, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The trade volume of artworks increased 37.2 percent from 756.3 billion won in 2021 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Cultural relics presumed to belong to the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) were found in the former presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul, the cultural heritage authority has said. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) on Tuesday unveiled the result of its four-month preliminary survey of the site, commissioned [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — There are many posts complaining about reverse discrimination against men on Blind, an anonymous community app for the workplace, a women’s think tank said Tuesday. The Korea Women’s Development Institute categorized and analyzed 2,672 organizational culture-related comments posted on the Blind app during the period from August 2021 to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “The Bird That Drinks Tears,” a fantasy novel series by Lee Yeong-do, has set a new record for foreign exports of Korean books, its publisher said Monday. The four-part series has recently been sold to a European publisher at about 300 million won (US$235,997) in advance royalty payment for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Catholics on Monday mourned the loss of former Pope Benedict XVI, led by tributes by religious leaders. Benedict, who served as the head of the Catholic Church from 2005 through 2013, died Saturday morning (local time) in the Vatican monastery at the age of 95. He retired [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jung-man, one of South Korea’s most famous commercial photographers, died Saturday at the age of 68 while fighting pneumonia, according to his family. Kim had a reputation for his fashion photography after majoring in western painting at the National School of Fine Arts at the Villa Arson in [...]