SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In a move to ease burdensome regulations, the South Korean government has approved guidelines allowing bakeries to provide complimentary birthday candles with cake purchases, addressing a peculiar regulatory oversight that had technically criminalized the common practice. Until now, birthday candles were classified as “household chemical products,” making their distribution — [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s state media has made no mention of leader Kim Jong-un’s birthday, which reportedly falls on Wednesday, despite speculation the North may formalize its celebrations this year amid its glorification campaigns for him. North Korea has not officially designated Kim’s birthday, known to be Jan. 8, for special [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean military couple has celebrated the first birthday of their quintuplets. Army Capt. Seo Hye-jeong and and Army Capt. Kim Jin-soo from the 17th Infantry Division held the first birthday party of their five children in Masan, South Gyeongsang Province. The quintuplets were born at Seoul National [...]
YONGIN, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Jang-soon, the world’s ‘most fertile’ giraffe, celebrated her 35th birthday on Wednesday. The zoo of the Everland amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, celebrated her birthday by presenting her with a cake made of carrots, hay, cabbage and sweet potatoes. Born in 1986, Jang-soon turned 100 years old [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Indonesian members of the ARMY, BTS’ official fan club, planted trees to celebrate BTS member Jimin’s birthday. Asabell “Asa” Audida, a 24-year old fan, proposed on social media to plant 1,000 mangrove trees starting a month before Jimin’s 26th birthday on Oct. 13, local media reported. Just nine days [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A second fan-made forest named after RM, the leader of the popular K-pop boy band BTS, in celebration of his birthday opened in Seoul on Monday, an environmental group said. At “RM Forest No. 2,” located on the Ichon side of Han River Park, three hackberry trees and 200 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — In celebration of the 25th birthday of RM, the leader of the popular boy band BTS, his fans created a forest in his name at a public park along the Han River in Seoul, an environmental group said Tuesday. Some 250 fans gathered around the landmark clock tower on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A dozen angry activists gathered in front of the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Thursday, where a birthday celebration for Japanese Emperor Akihito was hosted by the local Japanese Embassy. Although it is a common annual event for Japanese diplomatic offices overseas to celebrate the occasion (the actual birthday is [...]
YONGIN, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Two pandas at Everland were presented with special treats Sunday to celebrate their upcoming third and fourth birthdays. Ai Bao (lovely treasure) and Le Bao (pleasant treasure) are Chinese giant pandas who flew some 2,400km to Korea from China a little over four months ago on March 3. The [...]