SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea National Arboretum (KNA) is set to break the current tree-hugging world record of 936 people set in Portland, U.S., with a Tree Hug event that will be held at the KNA in Pocheon on March 21. The KNA is conservatively expecting a tree-hugging record of 1,200 people, [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Incheon is initiating a massive tourist project for its 168 islands, said local officials on March 17. Although the islands off the city’s coast are blessed with natural beauty, they are often overlooked by tourists due to a lack of tour infrastructure. First of all, a complex will [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and Harvard University jointly held the opening ceremony for WorldMUN 2015, the Harvard World Model United Nations, on March 16. WorldMUN is a model UN conference for university students, held by Harvard University in cities around the world every year. Its 2015 program is being [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has announced its 100th dispatch of Korean nationals overseas through the World Friends KOICA Volunteer program. The recruited volunteers will go through preparatory training at the Yongwol Education Center for 33 days. The 44 volunteers will then be dispatched to 12 assigned countries for two [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Group‘s construction of the 123-story Lotte World Tower is nearing completion, as the building reached its 100th floor on March 14. There are currently 20,000 regularly employed personnel and 4 million workers per year building the massive project, which requires high precision engineering. Here are some interesting facts about [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s first artificial sea waterway, which runs through Central Park in Songdo, Incheon passed a government water quality inspection, according to results published by the Incheon Institute of Health and Environment on March 14. Chlorophyll-a (CHLA) concentration, which is commonly used to measure water quality, was recorded at 4.9㎎/㎥, [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Dokdo Museum Seoul is preparing a special event for its 90,000th visitor in celebration of its 900 days of operation, according to an announcement on its website. The museum will award a three-person travel ticket for Dokdo and Ulleungdo Islands to its 90,000th visitor, expected to be identified between March [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of 150 theater workers demonstrated on Jongro streets to stop the shutdown of a small theater that has been in operation for the past 28 years. Daehangno Theater is the third-oldest small stage theater in Daehangno, the street famous for performance art in Korea, and is facing closure due [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Mercedes-Benz is holding an exhibition of paintings created by children participating in its 2015 Mobile Kids program, an international road safety convention for elementary school children that was initiated by the company. The exhibition, featuring drawings reflective of the children’s individual dreams, will be held at the Mercedes-Benz Songpa Showroom [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A famous rubber duck gained immense popularity in Korea between October and November 2014, but what happened to the giant pile of yellow polyvinyl that was nothing more than industrial waste? Lotte Department Store brought new life to the waste by ‘upcycling‘ the polyvinyl, in collaboration with design group [...]