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SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Heritage Service announced Thursday that it will launch an on-site video description program at Taereung, a royal tomb in northeastern Seoul, beginning next month and running through December 5. The program, organized with the Seoul Tourism Organization, is designed to make cultural heritage more accessible to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The national short track speed skating team has been reunited with a coach who guided the country to a successful performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics at home. The Korea Skating Union (KSU) announced Thursday that Kim Sun-tae will take the reins as the temporary head coach of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Trying to win for the first time in over two weeks, the Lotte Giants have lost versatile infielder Jeon Min-jae to an oblique injury. Before taking on the LG Twins at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on Thursday, Giants manager Kim Tae-hyoung said Jeon could be out for up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants has set a new season high with a nine-game hitting streak. Lee batted 1-for-4 in the Giants’ 8-1 loss to the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego on Wednesday (local time). Batting sixth, Lee got his lone hit of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — After squeezing into the exclusive-field Tour Championship for the seventh straight season, PGA Tour veteran Im Sung-jae said he is proud of having kept his streak alive. Im will be the only South Korean among the 30 players who have qualified for the Tour Championship, the final event of [...]
JECHEON, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening of the 2025 Jecheon Korean Medicine Natural Product Industry Expo is just one month away. The 2025 Jecheon Korean Medicine Natural Product Industry Expo, scheduled to open Sept. 20 at Jecheon Oriental Medicine Expo Park in the North Chungcheong Province city, 116 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) announced on Wednesday that its four branches — in Seoul, Gwacheon, Deoksugung, and Cheongju — will host an array of exhibitions, markets, and performances as part of the 2025 Korea Art Festival. Timed to coincide with major art fairs such [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The runaway success of KPop Demon Hunters, a U.S. animated film released on Netflix in June, is driving a sharp rise in global curiosity about South Korea, with ripple effects expected across food, cosmetics and tourism. Google search data show that worldwide queries for “Korea” reached their highest level [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s millennial and Gen Z generations begin raising families, pregnancy and childbirth are taking on new cultural forms, blending tradition, technology and social media. Once marked by simple customs — such as hanging peppers or charcoal on a straw rope outside a home to signal the birth [...]
PAJU, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A 95-year-old former long-term prisoner of war, An Hak-seop, attempted on Wednesday to cross into North Korea through Panmunjom but was stopped by South Korean military authorities at the Tongil Bridge checkpoint. An, who has long identified as a “non-converted” prisoner for refusing to renounce allegiance to the North, traveled [...]