SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Metropolitan Government will hold a festival at the Han River for its citizens to refresh themselves from the scorching summer. From July 17 to August 23, the Hangang (Han River) Summer Festival will offer various summer activities at its 11 parks alongside the river such as camping, a water park, [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – After four piranhas were found in a Korean reservoir for the first time in Korea, there is widespread worry about ecosystem disturbance and the possibility of attacks on humans by the South American freshwater fish. The piranhas were thought to be abandoned by someone who brought the fish to Korea [...]
CHEONGSONG, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s 2015 National Dry-Tooling Competition will be held at Eoreumgol Valley in Cheongsong County in Gyeongsangbuk-do on July 12. Dry-tooling experts will make a refreshing scene by climbing ice-cold waterfall rocks using only ice axes, crampons and safety ropes. The competition will also hold challenges on artificial rock formations. [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Yankee Stadium, the home of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees, will install LED lighting from next season. KMW, a Korean LED lighting fixture manufacturer, announced on July 5 that it had entered into an agreement with the baseball club to replace its lighting with SUFA-X 1,000 watt LED lighting. [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Foodville has opened a bakery academy to develop a professional workforce in China. The academy, located in Wangjing SOHO, a landmark of Beijing, is equipped with two lecture rooms, five laboratories and an office, and can house up to 200 trainees. CJ Foodville will deploy trainees educated at [...]
YEOJU, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The New York Festivals in Yeoju 2015 ended on July 5 with 60,000 accumulated visitors. According to the city of Yeoju, 20,000 Yeoju citizens visited the festival on July 4 and 5, while more than 17,000 people visited on July 3 alone. City officials said that the festival was [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Beverage rolled out its “Majuang Red Pouch,” Korea’s first wine product packaged in pouch, providing a more portable option for wine aficionados. The product is packaged in a cheer pack, a flexible spouted pouch with screw-on cap. It contains 250ml of Majuang red wine with 13 percent alcohol. The [...]
JEONGSEON, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Hambaek Mountain Wild Flower Festival will be held from August 1 to 9 at Hambaek Mountain’s Manhangjae Valley and the nearby Gohan Market. Manhangjae Valley, which is often called ‘celestial garden,’ is Korea’s largest habitat of wild flowers. The festival, which is in its 10th year, will feature wild [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Lawmakers have proposed to protect Jeju’s Gotjawal primitive forest, which is being destroyed by reckless development on the tourist island. Kim Woo-nam, a lawmaker from Jeju, presented a revised bill for the Special Act on the Establishment of Jeju Special Self-governing Province and the Development of Free International City to [...]
ULSAN, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Whale Culture Town in Jangsaengpo, Ulsan, has attracted more than 20,000 visitors in less than two months after it was reopened on May 15. The attendance figures are particularly notable, as the results were achieved after the widespread outbreak of the MERS virus in Korea, and the whale [...]