SEOUL, Korea, Jan 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The tourist police force, intended to protect foreign tourists visiting Korea and make their stay as pleasant and convenient as possible, has celebrated its 100th day anniversary since founding on January 23. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the National Police Agency, the Tourist Police [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee Expo Seoul 2014, April 10-13 at Coex, Korea, will offer an interesting twist for visitors, as it showcases the very best from the coffee industry – both old and new. An exclusive ‘Mint Label’ zone within the exhibition will give select domestic and overseas businesses the opportunity [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Bookpal, the company specializing in smartphone-based mobile e-book services, announced on January 22 its 2013 book content download numbers. According to the company, the total number of e-book downloads during the year 2013 was 9 million, of which 2 million were paid contents. The number of page views on [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of visitors to Korea through cruise boats is steadily on the rise. According to a survey by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization, the total number of foreign tourists coming to Korea via cruise ships in 2013 was over 700,000, up [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 21 (Korea Bizwire) – An automobile cluster town will be created by 2017 in the City of Goyang in the northwest of Seoul, featuring an auto theme park, car custom shops, an auto parts recycling center, a vocational school, and a museum. On January 20, representatives from the Provincial Government of Gyeonggi, Goyang [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan City Government will hold a special sale event in which fashion items created by designers from the Seoul Fashion Creative Studio are offered at up to 90 percent discount. The event will be held at the Creative Studio’s showroom on the 4th floor of U-Us Building [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The K-Pop Hologram Performance Stage will open on the 9th floor of the Fit-in Shopping Mall in Seoul’s Dongdaemun on January 17. With financial support from KT (8.3 billion won) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (1 billion won), the 1,650-square-meter stage consists of the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 13 (Korea Bizwire) - The beautiful exterior of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park, a new landmark to be built in Seoul’s downtown, has been unveiled to the public. The building is famous for being designed by the world-famous architect Zaha Hadid. The Seoul Design Foundation said on January 10 that it has revealed [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A housewife surnamed Oh who lives in the suburban area on the outskirts of Seoul, bought last month 48 rolls of toilet paper at US$23.94 from Amazon.com. Taking advantage of no shipping-charge promotion, she could save about 50 won per roll. She said, “I began shopping on Amazon and other overseas shopping [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Jan 10 (Korea Bizwire) –The oil storage facility in Mapo, in the west of Seoul, which has been abandoned for 13 years, will be revived as a cultural space themed with environment and rebirth. The total area is 146,245 square meters, about 11 times bigger than that of Seoul Plaza right in front of the [...]