HWACHEON, South Korea, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In this small mountain town near the border with North Korea, winter has once again become a spectacle. The annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, one of the country’s most celebrated seasonal events, has surpassed one million visitors just two weeks after opening, organizers said Saturday — a milestone that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is enduring one of its harshest midwinter cold spells in years, as temperatures plunged across the country during Daehan — the final and traditionally coldest of Korea’s 24 seasonal divisions — with forecasters warning that the freeze is likely to persist through the end of the month. In [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — If your eye is drawn to the sly humor of Korean folk painting—or if you recently found yourself charmed by Derpy the Tiger in Netflix’s animated feature KPop Demon Hunters—Gallery Hyundai’s latest exhibitions offer a timely and rewarding encounter with the tradition that helped inspire both. This week, Gallery Hyundai [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea enters 2026, the Year of the Red Horse in the traditional lunar calendar, galleries across the country are marking the occasion with a wave of exhibitions devoted to one of humanity’s oldest artistic symbols. In Seoul’s Cheongdam-dong, Gallery Sein is hosting a special exhibition titled “Let [...]
DAEGU, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A small elementary school in the southern city of Daegu held its final graduation ceremony on Monday before closing its doors for good, a poignant marker of South Korea’s accelerating demographic decline and its growing impact on local communities. Wolgok Elementary School, which opened in 1993 in Daegu’s Dalseo district, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of traditional cultural merchandise tied to South Korea’s palaces and heritage sites reached a record high last year, buoyed by the global surge of interest in K-culture and the growing appeal of heritage-inspired products to foreign visitors. The Korea Heritage Agency (KHA) said Friday that combined online and offline [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A deep cold settled over South Korea on Friday, pushing temperatures in Seoul down to minus 11 degrees Celsius as a post-Christmas cold wave tightened its grip on the country, the national weather agency said. By early morning, temperatures had fallen to minus 10.5 degrees in the western port [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ulsan’s Ulju County will ring in the new year with a large-scale sunrise celebration at Ganjeolgot Cape, hosting a two-day festival from Dec. 31 through Jan. 1 to mark what is widely known as the first sunrise on the Korean Peninsula. County officials said preparations were finalized this week for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jogye Temple, the main temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, lit its annual Christmas tree on Thursday evening in a ceremony emphasizing interfaith harmony amid global and domestic tensions. The event, held at the temple’s main gate in central Seoul, brought together leaders from Korea’s major religious communities, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A major exhibition of the late Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee’s art collection has drawn strong early interest in Washington, surpassing 15,000 visitors within its first month, underscoring growing global attention to Korean cultural heritage. The National Museum of Korea said on Thursday that attendance at “Korean Treasures: Collecting, Cherishing, [...]