SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Gimbap has been selected as the most popular Korean food by Japanese. According to the Korea Tourism Organization’s survey on the top 10 Korean popular foods in Japan, gimbap ranked first. Some 80,000 SNS users participated in the survey. Gimbap is made of steamed white rice (bap) and various other [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean farm has succeeded in growing an exotic succulent plant originating from South Africa. The nutritious vegetable is called ficoïde glaciale, or ice plant, and is known to be a difficult plant to be sown on Korean soil. Jang Jong-Geun, head of Jingsung Farm in Ocheon-eup, Pohang, failed many times [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor announced on March 20 that more than 4,000 orders have been made for the latest edition of the Tucson SUV since South Korea’s leading carmaker began receiving preorders last week. A total of 4,200 units of the all-new Tucson were sold via early orders as of March [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2015 Jeju Fire Festival, a popular festival in which farmland is burned to kill weeds, wrapped up on March 8, after four days and 63 programs that were designed to demonstrate Jeju’s traditional pastoral culture. The grand burning, called ‘banggae,’ is a traditional agricultural and pastoral custom in Jeju. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A 10-meter-tall bundle of pine branches was set on fire on March 5 at Haeundae Beach in Busan, and 50,000 citizens gathered to see this spectacle, which was held as a moon-viewing event for Korea’s celebration of Daeboreum, the day of the first full moon of the year. Although the crowd could [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Macallan, the single malt Scotch whisky company, has launched another 1,000 bottle limited edition Macallan, ‘Master of Photography 5,’ in collaboration with world famous fashion photographer Mario Testino. Testino chose Asian scenery for his photography that is featured in the limited edition box sets, for the first time in the ‘MOP [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor Cha Seung-Won is to be the new face of Coca-Cola’s Schweppes advertising. Cha is currently making a serious impact on Korean TV viewers with his cooking ability on a reality show entitled ‘Three Meals a Day-Sea Side Edition.’ Coca-Cola Korea said that the actor is loved for being a surprisingly [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — On March 3, a vendors’ union in Chengju’s food district dedicated to grilled pork belly restaurants held a free tasting party for 500 people to celebrate Samgyeopsal (pork belly meat) Day, a fairly new observance in Korea. Samgyeopsal, which is one of Koreans’ favorite dinner choices for late night gatherings, translates [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A park dedicated to animation characters will be opened this month at the Animation Museum in Chuncheon. The park will embrace animation figures including characters from the successful animation Goorumbbang, and a real size house which is a rendition of home the characters live in. Visitors will be able to walk [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Several white-tailed sea eagles left Namdaecheon Stream in the south of Gangneung city, which has been their wintering ground from last December, and headed towards to the Northern hemisphere on March 2. White-tailed sea eagles are classified as a category 1 endangered species in Korea. They were designated as natural monument [...]