SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Department Store said Monday it will host this year’s first plogging event, which combines jogging and picking up trash, in the neighborhood of Gyeonghui Palace in central Seoul. The department store chain operator will install a booth at the entrance of the palace for three days starting from [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan City Government announced that it will hold a marathon for people and their pets at the Songdo Moonlight Festival Park in October. The marathon will see both pets and their owners run a 6-kilometer course together. The marathon will accept some 10,000 participants. The entry price [...]
JEJU, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — On March 10th, the Nexon Computer Museum announced its upcoming large-scale artwork exhibition, “Hello, REAL World!” The exhibition is set to celebrate the museum’s 10th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the popular online game, MapleStory. The exhibition features five beloved MapleStory characters – Pink Bean, Yeti, Slime, Stone [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jinhae Gunhangje (Jinhae Naval Port Festival), South Korea’s flagship cherry blossom festival, has become increasingly popular among foreign tourists, with tens of thousands of visitors from Taiwan and Southeast Asia attending the festival. In addition to Jinhae, Taiwanese tourists have also been flocking to nearby Gimhae, leading to [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The ever-increasing popularity of Korean dramas has turned the coast city of Gangneung, Gangwon Province into a tourist hotspot. The Jumunjin district in Gangneung, the filming location of the 2016 drama “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God,” also known as “Goblin,” has once again gained popularity as the backdrop [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it had created green spaces at two youth centers aimed at enabling teenagers who are excessively exposed to digital media to find mental stability by experiencing nature. The Play Ground, established at the Boramae Youth Center, consists of a series of gardens. The [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of a new global afforestation initiative. LG’s Indonesian branch partnered with Jakarta’s Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) last year to plant trees in Jakarta and two other cities. As of late last month, the tech firm’s had planted some 19,000 trees. [...]
DAEGU, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Daegu Metropolitan Government said Tuesday it will designate 20 florist shops in the city as medical clinics for pet plants, offering assistance to those struggling with growing their plants. Anyone will be able to bring their plant to the nearest plant clinic to receive various medical services like [...]
POCHEON, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea National Arboretum in the city of Pocheon, northeast of Seoul, said Monday it had opened a new Lichen Garden in the arboretum’s temperate house. Lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae and fungi maintaining a mutualistic relationship. The garden introduces lichens that live in the [...]
JINJU, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipal government of Jinju in South Gyeongsang Province said Monday that its Pavilion of Floating Lights won the “Honor” Award at the Canadian Wood Council’s Wood Design & Building Awards. The Pavilion of Floating Lights, completed in March last year, is a wooden building that was created by [...]