SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s Chuseok holiday, which began on September 14, has finally ended, and Koreans are returning to their workplaces. The holiday began with tension following a historic 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Gyeongju last Monday, and ended with typhoons Meranti and Malakas affecting the peninsula with heavy rain starting on Saturday. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs announced Monday that it has narrowed down the candidate sites for the upcoming “Korean Times Square” – an outdoor billboard display zone that will foster a city neighborhood’s economic and cultural values. Among the 11 sites that initially applied for review, [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 150 local retailers, fashion companies and cosmetics firms will participate in South Korea’s biggest shopping festival, “Korea Sale Festa,” slated for later this month, the trade ministry here said Tuesday. During the Sept. 29-Oct. 9 event, 153 companies will offer big discounts to shoppers and foreign visitors [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it has no plan to ban the use of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 7 on planes following the company’s global recall of the smartphones for battery problems. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said that it has been reviewing whether to prevent people [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean households’ overseas spending hit a record high in the first half of 2016 from a year earlier on increased outbound travel to neighboring countries, the central bank said Tuesday. South Korean households spent 13.6 trillion won (US$12 billion) overseas in the January-June period, up 10.7 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Chuseok, also referred to as Korean Thanksgiving, is one of the two major traditional holidays in Korea with the other being Lunar New Year. It is also the time for families to visit their hometowns, meet their parents and relatives, and catch up. However, it has become a stressful [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – More South Koreans have planned overseas trips during this year’s Chuseok (harvest moon) holiday that’s extended to five days due to the following weekend, data from tour companies showed Thursday. HanaTour said departure reservations for the Sept. 13-15 holiday period were counted at 26,500 people as of Thursday, up [...]
SUNCHANG, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangcheon Mountain, located in Sunchang County in North Jeolla Province, is best known for its spring water. Gangcheon’s spring water won the title as the “Best Water in Korea” awarded by the Korean Water Society in 2011 and 2012, for its richness in minerals, calcium, and magnesium. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will expand support for wellness tourism to attract health-conscious tourists across the world by combining it with unique local content such as beauty, oriental medicine, food and public saunas, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism hosted the “International Forum on Wellness Tourism [...]
INJE, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The 3rd Inje Wheel Festival, which was held from July 1 to 3, was found to be an unprecedented success, suggesting potential for future development. Themed “All the Fun You Can Get with Wheels”, the festival featured various events and spectacles, ranging from bicycle contest and photography [...]