SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A number of world-class movie directors and actors will make appearances at Asia’s largest film festival to be held in South Korea’s largest port city in October, the event’s organizing committee said Monday. This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), set to run from Oct. 6 to 15 in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s espionage film “The Age of Shadows” swept local cinemas during the Chuseok holiday this week, surpassing 5 million viewers, data showed Saturday. According to data compiled by the state-run Korean Film Council (KFC), the film broke the 5 million mark after recording an accumulated audience of more [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s leading talent agency SM Entertainment is going to Japan with its restaurant business that has drawn unexpected success at home, company officials said Monday. SM aims to open “SMT Tokyo,” the Japanese branch and the first overseas version of SMT Seoul, within six months, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean pop culture has expanded in size and market from Asia to the North American continent, a state-run media research institution said on Thursday. Citing its analysis of 24,208 news articles on Korean pop the culture published here from January 2001 to June 2016, Seoul-based Korea Press [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading distiller, HiteJinro, has chosen a new marketing strategy for a fresh wave of TV commercials, with the new ads featuring some of the hottest K-pop stars drinking soju, seemingly tipsy, while casually singing their talents away – behavior that is perhaps appropriate given that the ads are [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of South Korea’s biggest shopping festival, “Korea Sale Festa,” will be held in Seoul next month, along with various concerts and exhibitions to draw more visitors and shoppers from overseas, the trade ministry said Wednesday. The event will take place on Yeongdong Daero (Boulevard) in southern [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Taebaek city has seen a dramatic increase in tourists since the official opening of a filming site of “Descendants of the Sun,” city officials said Monday. Tourists have visited the remote city in Gangwon Province to check out the filming site of KBS 2TV’s sensationally popular series [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Outbound shipments of food, beauty, fashion and personal care products soared in the first half of the year on the back of the growing popularity of the Korean wave, or hallyu, industry data showed on Monday. According to the data compiled by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), exports [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – An online pop-up store featuring leading South Korean fashion brands has been opened on the largest online fashion-focused portal in Southeast Asia to help Korean design houses enter the Southeast Asian market, industry officials said Friday. The “Premium Korean Fashion” pop-up shop was launched in Singapore the previous day [...]