SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Guro District Office in Seoul has published dual-language fairy tale books created jointly by domestic and foreign residents. The residents participated in a program run by the district office during the April to September period. They formed teams by nationality and directly published four types of books on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea’s art market reaching new highs, the total volume of successful bids has set a new record this year. The Korea Arts Management Service reported that 296.8 billion won (US$250 million) had been spent on artwork auctions this year as of November. The size of the art [...]
SUWON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency announced that ‘Mari’, a human scent sniffer dog, has retired after years of active duty. Detection dogs are specially trained to uncover perpetrators or evidence in a crime scene by following various scents. A Belgian Malinois, the 10-year-old dog began active duty in Aug. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Sinan County’s Purple Island, 400 kilometers south of Seoul, have been designated by the United Nations as one of the world’s best tourism villages. The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) held the Best Tourism Village award ceremony at the general assembly held in Madrid on Dec. 2. Among 170 applications from [...]
JINJU, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Apple Use Research Institute, which operates under the umbrella of the Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, said Thursday that it had developed a reddish natural pigment extraction and recycling method using wasted apple peel and crab apples. There has been little use in the past for the [...]
WONJU, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A beach camping site that can be used by mobility vulnerable groups such as disabled and elderly people was set up on Thursday in the Yeongdong region on the east coast. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization have been promoting the ‘Open Tourism [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese right-wing extremists were seen insulting and threatening the director of a documentary film about the life and testimony of Lee Yong-soo, a 93-year-old victim of the Japanese military’s sexual slavery during World War II. Last week, Britain’s Channel 4 aired the Japanese Wartime Sex Slave episode for “Unreported [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As demand for smoking booths continues to rise, a vaping room has been set up in downtown Seoul for e-cigarette smokers. Philip Morris Korea Inc. said Tuesday that it had set up an outdoor smoking booth for both electronic and non-electronic cigarette smokers at the Parc 1 Tower complex [...]
JECHEON, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A new terrain that looks like the boot-shaped Italian Peninsula was found in the Cheongpung Lakeside in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province. Jecheon mayor Lee Sang-cheon recently revealed the finding on his Facebook page. “The new terrain on the skirt of Mt. Geumsu looks like a boot-shaped peninsula, reminiscent of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More people are moving from Seoul to nearby provinces like Gyeonggi and other regions in the greater Seoul area as housing prices in Seoul continue to spike. Statistics Korea reported on November 29 that last year, a total of 402,000 residents left Seoul for other cities or provinces and [...]