SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Cheongju has installed 50 pinwheels with Korean flags printed on them at the city hall’s garden to prepare for the celebration of Korea’s 70 years of independence from Japanese Occupation on August 15 this year. According to a city statement on June 18, the city government will [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Netmarble Games today announced the release of the first major update for its blockbuster mobile action RPG game, MARVEL Future Fight, featuring characters from the Guardians of the Galaxy. The update will see the introduction of new heroes and villains, a new mission stage as well as [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Dior is opening Asia’s largest flagship store in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul on June 20. ‘House of Dior’, a building designed by French architect Christian de Portzamparc, is made to look like a white dress slipping out of a gift box. Portzamparc drew inspiration from the light texture and shape of [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Smart technology is even coming to handbags. Couronne, Kolon Industry’s designer handbag brand, announced on June 17 that it would hold a presale event for its “Smart Bag 1.0: Glimm” from June 17 to 30. The smart handbag adopted Internet of Things technologies including NFC and Bluetooth, and shows the [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents in Chuncheon city’s Sinbuk-eup area held a traditional ritual for calling rain, to soothe pained farmers’ hearts caused by the recent drought, which is the worst the city has seen in the last forty years. About 100 residents and city officials participated in the ritual. Chuncheon saw its [...]
CHEONGJU, Korea, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A huge flock of white herons inhabiting a hill behind a middle school in Cheongju is annoying the school’s students and teachers. According to Cheongju Nam Middle School, hundreds of white herons are living on the hill behind its annex hall. Photographers and passers-by marvel at the group dance of [...]
JEONJU, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonbuk Green Korea said on June 16 that the water quality at two spots in Saemangeum Lake ranks in the sixth degree by chemical oxygen demand (COD) test results, which indicates that the lake’s water quality is at the worst level. Although the lake has been managed under a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hong Kong Express Airline and Cathay Pacific are reducing routes to Korea due to the MERS outbreak. Hong Kong Express will decrease its two daily round-trips on the Hong Kong-Incheon route to one, from June 15 to October 24. The airline will also reduce its seven weekly round-trips of [...]
MIRYANG, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Miryang is promoting some unique tourist attractions through a special photography competition. The city will provide gifts to anyone, chosen by lot, who sends pictures of Miryang’s three tour hot spots known for their mysterious phenomena. A valley in Sannae-myeon has ice even in the summer, Pyochungbi Monument known [...]
DAEGU, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan authorities will conduct several operations to release large amounts of water at one time into barrages of the Nakdong River to suppress the growth of algal blooms. It is expected that the river will see its algae concentration decrease 5 to 36 percent with the program. Authorities released [...]