SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday it will open libraries in Gwanghwamun Square and Seoul Plaza to celebrate World Book Day (April 23), an annual event organized by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote reading, publishing and copyright. The libraries will be available until November. In [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The neologism “DeukTem” (득템) in Korean refers to the act of obtaining an item, where “Deuk” means “to get” and “Tem” means “item”. Originally coined in the context of acquiring valuable items in online games, the term has been adapted to describe situations where one acquires a particularly good [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – On April 15th (local time), BLACKPINK made K-pop history as the first Korean girl group to perform as a headliner at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the largest music festival in Indio, California, U.S., according to their agency YG Entertainment. The photo depicts BLACKPINK’s electrifying performance at [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group sold over 100,000 electric vehicles (EVs) abroad in the first quarter of 2023. The company’s combined global EV sales during this period were 135,499 units, with domestic sales of 39,982 units and overseas sales of 104,517 units. Flagship EV models, such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 [...]
CHANGNYEONG, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Changnyeong-gun in Gyeongsangnam-do is expanding the Upo Wetland Protection Area to efficiently preserve and prevent damage to Upo Wetland, which has a well-preserved ecosystem. The Ministry of Environment designated 8.56 million square meters of Upo Wetland as a wetland protection area in August 1999, and now plans to expand [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean Village will be established to provide temporary shelter for survivors of the earthquake in Turkey. The Korean Association in Turkey said that the village will be built in Iskenderun, Hatay Province, on a plot of 27,700 square meters of land. The village will be composed of 360 containers. [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean food industry is following the eco-friendly trend by introducing a variety of products made from recycled food byproducts. CJ Cheiljedang Corp. has introduced a snack made with cracked rice and pureed soybean. Since its release in April last year, it was only available at pop-up stores [...]
YONGIN, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Everland’s ecological safari “Lost Valley” is celebrating its 10th anniversary on April 20th, having welcomed 18 million visitors over the past decade. The safari, which allows visitors to closely observe 200 herbivores of 24 species, has become an essential part of Everland’s offering, with 30% of all visitors over [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s car exports surged more than 60 percent on-year to reach an all-time high in March on the back of solid demand for eco-friendly cars, data showed Monday. The value of outbound shipments of automobiles came to US$6.52 billion last month, up 64.1 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — “Suzume” has become the most-viewed Japanese film ever released in South Korea. Japanese director Makoto Shinkai’s latest animation broke the record set by the animation “The First Slam Dunk,” on Friday with 4.482 million admissions, according to data from the Korean Film Council. As of Sunday, “Suzume” gathered about [...]