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 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Red Bull held a paper plane flying competition at Konkuk University in Seoul on March 2, to select a Korean national team to participate at the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final 2015 in Austria. The competitors launched their own constructed paper planes for three tests: Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul re-opened two city-run pet playgrounds, at Sangam World Cup Park and Seoul Children’s Grand Park, on March 1. After three months of seasonal closure, the two playgrounds are finally open for pets and their owners eager to spend some time outdoors in the early spring. Entrance to the playgrounds [...]