VENICE, Italy, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With its lush garden and sunlight filtering through 19th century windows, the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice provides the perfect backdrop for the long-awaited debut of Korean abstract art master Yoo Young-kuk (1916-2002), who dedicated his career to capturing the simple lyricism of nature on canvas through his [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The K-pop group BTS will hold a pop-up exhibition titled ‘Monochrome’ in Seoul’s Seongsu-dong neighborhood from April 26 to May 12, their agency Big Hit Music announced on April 17. BTS shared black-and-white posters photographed before the members’ military enlistment through their official social media accounts on the same day. [...]
INCHEON, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean Muslim YouTuber with 5.52 million subscribers has faced pushback from local residents after announcing plans to build an Islamic center in Incheon, South Korea. According to the social media posts of the YouTuber, known as Mr. A, on April 13 he wrote: “With your help, I have signed [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Buddhist monks reclaimed 14th-century Buddhist relics from a Boston museum in a ceremony on Tuesday (U.S. time), culminating more than a decadelong repatriation efforts by the government and the Buddhist circle. The return was made under a landmark agreement reached in February, in which the Museum of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A striking 8 out of 10 South Koreans in their 20s and 30s have yet to achieve financial independence from their parents, according to a recent survey by the job platform Jinhaksa Catch. The respondents cited a lack of stable income due to employment challenges as the primary reason for [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government decided Friday to allow an outdoor reading event to be held at Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall on May 31, effectively rejecting the request of an annual LGBTQ festival there. The LGBTQ festival was one of three events that sought to use the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong’s “Mater 2-10″ has been shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize, the British literary awards said Tuesday. Hwang’s novel, translated into English by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae, was announced as one of the six nominees by the Booker Prize Foundation on its [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) on Tuesday announced the four finalists for the 2024 Korea Artist Prize. The four finalists — Kwon Ha-yoon, Yang Jung-uk, Yoon Ji-young and Jane Jin Kaisen — are active both in Korea and abroad, employing diverse media, such as sculpture, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has developed a new design for sidewalk trash bins and installed 30 units at 15 locations across the city center, including near City Hall, Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Marronnier Park, officials announced on April 8. The “Seoul-style” street bin project is part of the city’s [...]
CHUNCHEON, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) –The gentle breezes and sunny skies over the weekend drew crowds to admire the cherry blossoms along the Gongji Stream in downtown Chuncheon. But their festive picnics left Uidam Park strewn with trash on Monday morning. At 6 a.m., the park showed unmistakable signs of late-night revelry the night before [...]