BORYEONG, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The annual Boryeong Mud Festival has been selected as one of Asia’s three major festivals by an international festival association, a local government said Tuesday. According to the city government of Boryeong, about 190 kilometers south of Seoul, its popular mud festival was designated as one of the Three [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tidal flats have been officially inscribed as a UNESCO world natural heritage despite receiving a deferral in a preliminary review, cultural heritage authorities said Monday. Seoul made a push to register “getbol,” or “Korean tidal flats,” on UNESCO’s world heritage list in the 44th session of the [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ji-young, a 29-year-old office worker in Seoul, enjoyed her second getaway vacation this year at a remote country house on the periphery of the southern agricultural city of Sangju last month. The rustic old-style farmer’s house, built with clay and wood, came with few of the amenities and [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Local governments in charge of antivirus measures at popular summer vacation destinations are on high alert for a massive influx of vacationers from the greater Seoul area and other regions hit by a surge of COVID-19 cases. South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases have been in excess of 1,500 [...]
BORYEONG, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Boryeong Mud Festival, one of the nation’s most celebrated summer events, will scale down in-person programs due to recent spikes in COVID-19 cases, organizers said Thursday. The 24th annual mud extravaganza is scheduled to be held from July 23 to Aug. 1 on Daecheon Beach in the [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Six more bridges straddling the Han River in Seoul will be lit at night from July, adding to the 20 bridges that already have nocturnal lighting features, the city government said Wednesday. The 26 bridges, including the newly fitted six — Achasan Bridge, Mapo Bridge, Cheonho Bridge, Dumo Bridge, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Wednesday it will launch a congestion alert system at local beaches this week as more people are expected to travel across the country amid hot weather and eased social distancing guidelines. The country will implement the three-level alert system at local beaches to keep [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Modetour Network Inc., South Korea’s second-largest travel service provider, has offered a voluntary retirement program for the first time in the company’s history after suffering from the prolonged novel coronavirus pandemic, industry insiders said Sunday. All of the travel agency’s 990 employees will be eligible to apply for the [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of domestic trips taken by South Koreans dropped sharply last year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, a research institute said Sunday. South Koreans are estimated to have taken 225.19 million domestic trips in 2020, down 34.7 percent from a year earlier, the Korea Culture & Tourism [...]
BORYEONG, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Boryeong Mud Festival, one of South Korea’s most celebrated summer events, will be held online and offline next month in consideration of COVID-19, local officials said Sunday. The municipality of Boryeong, a South Chungcheong Province city 190 kilometers south of Seoul, said the 24th version of its [...]