BUSAN, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Haeundae Beach will hold a festival to share an important message about the serious risk that ocean waste, including microplastics, poses to the environment. Busan’s Haeundae District announced that it will hold a Beachcombing Festival at Haeundae Beach from September 25 to October 12. This type of beachcombing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan OneAsia Festival (BOF), a major annual K-pop concert in the second-biggest South Korean city of Busan, will kick off next month with a star-studded lineup. The BOF 2019 will run from Oct. 19-25 at the outdoor stage of Busan’s Hwamyung Park, Haeundae Beach and Busan Cinema Center [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday it will provide five hydrogen-powered buses to the southern port city of Busan by October in a move to promote hydrogen-powered vehicles. The Busan metropolitan city is planning to establish 19 hydrogen charging stations by 2022 to make 4,500 hydrogen passenger cars and 100 hydrogen buses [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities are being praised for their role in shutting down Gupo Dog Meat Market, located in Busan’s Buk District, last July. For the last 30 years, the closure of the Gupo Dog Meat Market has been a popular topic of discussion. The market, however, managed to survive due [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The views of summer night beaches are changing with the ‘night owls’ who enjoy relaxing by the sea at night to escape the sweltering heat during the daytime. According to Busan’s Haeundae District, about 8,000 people have enjoyed night swimming to date since the beach started to open at [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees working in the cold storage warehouses at the international fisheries wholesale market in Busan are fighting against the cold despite the sizzling temperatures outdoors. The temperature of the freezer on the third floor of the building, which makes ice for the fishing industry, remains at -8 degrees Celsius. [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Museum of Contemporary Art Busan said it will display “Random International,” an exhibition of audience-participation new media that includes the special exhibition work “Rain Room,” starting on August 15. “Rain Room” allows the audience to roam freely without getting wet in the pouring rain inside the exhibition hall. [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Songjeong Beach was met by a sudden deluge of marine waste on Monday morning after Typhoon Danas disappeared on Saturday, leaving behind marine trash that washed up on the beach. Some 100 people including employees of the beach management office, maritime life guards, and surfers pitched in to [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway workers in the southern city of Busan ended their two-day strike Thursday after the labor union and management reached a wage deal. Busan Transportation Corp., the city-run operator of the subway system, agreed with the union to raise wages 0.9 percent and hire 540 new workers. The members [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized subway workers in Busan, a major southern port city, went on indefinite strike Wednesday over a pay dispute. The walkout by Busan Metro’s labor union began at 5 a.m. after its last-minute wage hike negotiations with management fell through the previous night. The union said about 2,400 of [...]