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 [...]
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. [...]