SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) of Korea announced on July 14 that it would discuss export growth plans for agricultural food products during the ‘Ninth Public-Private Joint Conference on Agricultural Food Product Export Expansion’, which will take place on July 15 at the Korea Federation of [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – With the summer movie season right around the corner, a number of blockbuster movies – Train to Busan (July 20), Jason Bourne (July 27), The Last Princess (early August), and The Tunnel (August 10) – will be fighting for top spot at the Korean box office. According to Korea Film [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Samsung Life Retirement Research Center reported on May 20 that according to a study of 820 married individuals across the country, both male and female and above 20 years of age, husbands and wives are hurt most by their spouses’ words that demean their self-esteem. Of the 441 participating [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced plans Tuesday to streamline its underperforming programs in efforts to advance the local unmanned vehicle industry. It will focus first on developing “common technologies” crucial to drones, driverless cars and unmanned vessels, according to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The government [...]
INCHEON, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s western port city of Incheon and China’s eastern port city of Weihai have been chosen as priority cooperative cities to establish the “South Korea-China Digital Silk Road” aimed at cementing cooperation in the information-communications field between the nations, an Incheon city official said Monday. The cities will sign a [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea celebrates the art world of French artists to mark the 130th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, museums and art galleries here said Monday. At the Art Wall Gallery inside the Shinsege Department Store in downtown Seoul, a photo exhibition of Maia Flore is on [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Models pose for a photo with stormtroopers, fictional soldiers in the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, on the campus of Konkuk University in eastern Seoul on May 2, 2016, two days before “Star Wars Day,” a global event observed by fans of the sci-fi films. May 4 [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A pair of Chinese giant pandas that arrived here last month as part of a joint research project were officially unveiled to the public on April 21 at the country’s largest amusement park south of Seoul. After some 50 days of allowing the animals to get used [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye plans to wear a headscarf to cover herself during her historic visit to Iran to observe the country’s strict religious dress code policies, a government source said Saturday. In her first trip next month to the Islamic republic since the two countries forged diplomatic [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the rainy weather today, SETEC EDUCARE 2016 opened with great attention from both exhibitors and visitors. The show is being held from April 7 for four days at SETEC. Organized by Segye Fairs and sponsored by Tuntun English and Baby League, the slogan for this year’s show is [...]