SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Social Media Agency has selected the “Mullae Banga” restaurant, a Korean restaurant in Bongpyeong, Gangwon Province, specializing in buckwheat dishes, as a place with stories. Lee Yoon-ja, the owner for six year, is well known for remembering her customer’s preferences and idiosyncrasies. In addition to [...]
SEOUL, July (Korea Bizwire) – This is a KakaoTalk’s TV commercial aired in Indonesia. In the ad campaign, K-pop mega star BIGBANG appeared together with local songstress Sherina to appeal to the Indonesian market. KakaoTalk is a multi-platform texting app that allows iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users to send and receive messages for free. After [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment will hold a “Podcast Open Studio” in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice and the creation of the demilitarized zone on July 15 at Olleh Square in Seoul’s downtown. The concert was intended to promote the ecology festival to celebrate [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Kimbo Caffe held a promotional free coffee service in the lobby of Chung-Ang University Hospital in the south of Seoul. For three hours between 2 and 5 pm on July 11, the Naples-based Italian espresso brand served 200 cups of Ice Americano to nurses participating in a seminar [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Tourism Organization held an event to celebrate the formation of “Wow Korea” supporters, a group of 40 from 15 Asian nations, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, to promote tourism to Korea. They will soon travel all over Korea and use social networking tools [...]
JEJU, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju KAL Hotel will hold a special promotion for the summer season. At its Chinese restaurant Chen Xiang, hotel guests can enjoy Cantonese-style semi-buffet between 6 and 9 pm on every Wednesday. The buffet offers 30 different dishes including chili shrimp, cold jellyfish salad, mixed seafoods and vegetables in [...]
Seoul, July 08 (Korea Biz Wire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization made four recommendations to visit this summer in their joint website “Korea Nooks and Crannies” (summer.visitkorea.or.kr). The first is a train ride-camping program to visit the Kotji Beach (Anmyeon Island) and the city of Asan. [...]
Seoul, S. Korea, July 06 (Korea Biz Wire) The 2013 Tomato Festival, hosted by the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and the Korea Tomato Association and sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Rural Affairs, was held on July 4 at the Yangjae (Seoul) location of NACF Hanaro Club. The festival featured a variety of [...]
Seoul, S. Korea, July 06 (Korea Biz Wire) The Garden Project, a non-profit promoting urban agriculture, said on July 5 that it has completed a task of creating rooftop vegetable gardens in 20 locations in Seoul. Until now, the organization has focused on making gardens in public buildings such as dong (administrative unit equivalent to [...]
Cheongdo, S. Korea, July 06 (Korea Biz Wire) At 7 pm on July 13, the first dog day of summer, a music concert “for dogs and cows 2013″ will be held at the Cheongdo Open Air Stage in North Gyeongsang Province. Intended for pets and their human owners, the concert is a fifth-year event since [...]