SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Mi-Gyeong, ex-chairperson of Korean NGO ‘Beautiful Store,’ is holding her first private art exhibition, entitled ‘4 PM in Seochon,’ at gallery Ryugaheon in Tongui-dong, Seoul. Kim stopped working for a prestigious and very well-known NGO last year, due to her sudden desire to draw the urban landscapes unfolding before Inwang [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung’s SUHD TV has caught cinemagoers’ attention with a pre-show advertisement that instantly follows a theatrical teaser trailer, with direct references to the movie clip. The pre-show commercial starts with the line, ‘What would it be like to see this movie on Samsung’s SUHD TV?’ and continues with the main [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver will start a Closed Beta Test (CBT) for its new SNS service ‘Pholar,’ which is based on the shared interest of users through tagging activities, on February 25, said the company on February 20. Pholar will be a very effective and convenient user-to-user interaction platform that facilitates users’ sorting [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Jeonju is set to develop 100 urban forest areas for urban heat-island reduction, said the city government on February 20. The forest areas will be developed at schools, apartments, streets and rooftops in varying sizes. A total of 400 million won (US$ 360,000) will be spent this [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Kwon Ik-Jae is a craftsman of yeon, a Korean kite, and is a man on mission. Aged 55, he has been flying an immense quantity of kites every Lunar New Year day for the past several years. This year was no exception, as he flew 150 kites on February 19 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A sea of small bags flooded Gwanghwamun Square on February 19. The bags are called ‘bok jumoni’, which can be translated into lucky bag. Koreans use these bags to keep the pocket money given to them by their elders on Lunar New Year day. The 304 lucky bags adorned a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Sang-Ah, a 24-year-old Jeju University student, became the first female marine ROTC cadet in Korea. She earned the Korea Marine ROTC cadetship, along with 30 other official cadets, at a Jeju University’s cadet enlistment ceremony on February 17, after passing the qualification test in June 2013. She now faces [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) is set to carry out various promotional and safety-related measures as part of preparations for a massive inflow of Chinese tourists during the Spring Festival, China’s most celebrated holiday. The MCST is planning to conduct monitoring, which will be operated by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Gyeongsang provincial government will be operating a Dokdo promotional bus from February 13. The bus will be a moving exhibition of Dokdo-related content such as photographs and books. The outside of the bus will be decorated with Dokdo photographs as well. The bus will be presented at the Pohang [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Grapefruits are the new trendy import among Koreans right now. According to the Korea Customs Service, 19,491 tons of grapefruits were imported to Korea last year, which is an increase of 68.3 percent from 2013. Compared to 2009, the import amount and the import value increased 240.5 percent and 266.5 [...]