SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of pesticides sprayed by golf courses in South Korea to manage their greens and fairways has been on an upward trend. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Environment, the nation’s 545 golf courses used 213 tons of pesticides in 2021, up 5.4 percent from [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Land theme park has announced its “Mardi Gras Together!” carnival parade, which will run until June 6. The photo shows performers at Seoul Land in Gwacheon donning exotic masks featuring motifs such as carnival and lion masks. Mardi Gras, a French term which translates to “Fat Tuesday” in English, [...]
BUSAN, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Farmer Kim Kyung-yang is harvesting rice for the first time this season in the Busan area on Friday morning, at his rice field located in Jukdong-dong, Gangseo-gu, Busan. The first variety to be planted in his field is Hae Dam rice, an early season type that will have a [...]
SUNCHEON, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Garden on Water,” Korea’s first themed water garden, has been built on Dongcheon adjacent to the 2023 Suncheonman International Garden Expo. The garden consists of five themed areas, including community, sustainable, healing, meta, and ecology, and covers an area of 2,000㎡. The garden offers a unique experience for [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Participants were seen exploring the grounds of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul during a pre-event of the “Gyeongbokgung Starlight Night Trip” on Thursday. The Cultural Heritage Administration and the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation have announced that the “Gyeongbokgung Starlight Night Trip” program will run twice a day from Wednesday to [...]
BORYEONGL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Boryeong City in South Korea has announced that the mayor and the head of the city’s Festival and Tourism Foundation will visit Bangkok’s Songkran Water Festival for three days to promote the 26th Boryeong Mud Festival, which will be held from July 21 to August 6. The visit is [...]
GANGNEUNG, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Heading straight to the site of the disaster, some 20 government officials received a distress call indicating that a wildfire had broken out in the eastern coastal city of Gangneung and was being fanned by strong winds toward Gyeongpodae Pavilion, a state-designated cultural treasure. The site of the fire [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Wednesday celebrated the first Library Day (April 12). Library Day aims to promote the social and cultural value of libraries and their usage. The ceremony took place at the National Library of Korea. The event included a proclamation ceremony for Library [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners working in South Korea’s agricultural industry spiked 531 percent on-year in the first quarter amid eased COVID-19 restrictions, data showed Thursday. A total of 8,666 foreigners came to South Korea for jobs in farming villages during the January-March period, sharply up from 1,373 foreign laborers [...]
JINDO, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A world-famous sea-parting festival hosted annually by the southwestern South Korean island county of Jindo gets a futuristic upgrade this year using state-of-the-art technology. The 43rd edition of the Jindo Miracle Sea Road Festival, described worldwide as the “Korean version of Moses’ miracle,” will be held from April 20-22, [...]