SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — When people hear the words “virtual reality” (VR), most would think of video games with awkward VR headsets. Some would think of “The Matrix,” the movie where the main character, Neo, realizes that his reality is actually a computer simulation and that the Matrix is a VR version of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. plans to send F-22 Raptor and F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets to the Seoul air show to be held next month, South Korea’s defense ministry said Tuesday. The Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition, or Seoul ADEX, will open on Oct. 17 for a six-day run [...]
CHEONGJU, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A monthlong international craft biennale will open in the South Korean city of Cheongju later this week under the theme of “Hands Plus Embrace.” The 2017 Cheongju Craft Biennale, the 10th of its kind, will run from Sept. 13 to Oct. 22 in that city and will feature some [...]
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a global Korean pop music and culture convention, wrapped up its Los Angeles event Sunday, bringing together tens of thousands of fans of cutting-edge South Korean musicians, fashion and other Korean-related cultural content. A crowd of 80,000 gathered at the three-day KCON LA 2017 held from Friday [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2000, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) bought a royal Korean seal made in the 16th century from a private collector. Some seven years later, the existence of the historic artifact belonging to Queen Munjeong of Korea’s last dynasty of Joseon (1392-1910) became known to Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s latest film “The Day After” has been invited to two international film festivals, Toronto and New York, set to open next month, its local distributor said Wednesday. The 21st feature from Hong will be screened in the Masters’ section which introduces the latest from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Children’s books reflect a nation’s identity and livelihood and they, in turn, play a crucial role in nurturing and consolidating the nature of the people, wrote Bang Jeong-hwan for a local magazine in 1922. Bang (1899-1931) was a children book writer and an activist who fought for children’s rights. [...]
JECHEON, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Jecheon, central South Korea, will play host to an international exhibition focused on the Korean medicine and biotech industry in September in a bid to develop the Korean herbal medicine-based biotech industry into a future growth engine, organizers said Thursday. The upcoming World Korean Medicine-Bio Industry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — For all the help of advanced technologies unimaginable by previous generations, it doesn’t seem like the people of today are enjoying more relaxed times. That is the very idea that South Korean media artist Lee Bei-kyoung had in mind when he started working on art with respect to time [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A time-themed exhibition can’t be opening at a better place than at Culture Station Seoul 284, a former railway station built in 1929. Before it was transformed into a cultural space in August 2011, the modern architecture was seen as a symbol that lived through the country’s dynamic economic [...]