SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rodong Shinmun, North Korea’s state daily, reported that its supreme leader Kim Jong-un flew over the capital city of Pyongyang to monitor a new large-scale housing complex being built for scientists on February 15. The released photos show Kim enjoying a bird’s-eye view of the project from his luxurious plane. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Since the beginning of 2015, the year of the sheep, there has been no end to Koreans’ enthusiasm for the woolly animals. Gyeongju National Museum is holding a special exhibition featuring sheep themed relics from February 17 to May 3. Several pieces of sheep themed art made with bronze and clay [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean marines joined Asia-Pacific’s largest annual multinational military exercise, Cobra Gold, which started in Thailand from February 9 to 20, and has been held since 1981. This year, Korea dispatched 36 marine scouts and 14 officers for field exercises and staff planning exercises. Korea has been participating in the training [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Shinsegae Department Store is holding a photo shoot event for Valentine’s Day on the seventh floor of its head branch store in Chungmuro from February 13 to 15. Couples, friends and families can preserve their moments in wall-size, black-and-white photographs. Shinsegae’s Gwangju Branch is also holding a similar event for customers who [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Getting newly printed bills during this Lunar New Year period in Korea is going to be challenging. Since Koreans have a custom of giving money to wish others well during the Lunar New Year, Korean banks have been competing to get larger stocks of newly printed currency, due to Koreans preference [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul city is hosting an exhibition of a historical archive composed of 260 photographs, newspapers, magazines and other media selected to talk about the main historical events that took place around the site of Seoul Plaza over the past 70 years. The exhibition is to be held from February 12 to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is to lock-in two launch contracts with French launch services firm Arianespace on February 13. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) said that it has been developing, in collaboration with the KARI, two geo-stationary multi-purpose satellites used for monitoring weather and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – If you happen to have neglected lipsticks left in your drawer, bring them to any Bobbi Brown store in Korea and get one new Bobbi Brown lipstick for one old lipstick! Bobbi Brown is holding this special recycling event for five shades, ‘Salmon’ in the Lip Color line, ‘Bright Poppy’ in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeongbokgung and Changgyeonggung Palaces will be open for nighttime viewing from February 11 to 16 and February 10 to 15 respectively. Gyeongbokgung will be open from 7 pm to 9 pm with the last entrance at 8 pm, while Changgyeonggung will be open from 7 pm to 10 pm with the last [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, the governor of Bangkok, and his delegation visited operation rooms and stations for Korea’s first monorail in Daegu on February 9. The governor has chosen to benchmark Daegu’s monorail system, line no. 3, in order to develop 10 lines of various types of trains including monorail trains and AGT (Automatic [...]