WASHINGTON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. special envoy for global youth issues will travel to Korea’s southeastern city of Busan this week to attend the first-ever trilateral youth leadership program involving people from South Korea, the United States and Japan, the State Department said Tuesday. Abby Finkenauer plans to visit Busan from Wednesday [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – For the second consecutive year, Busan has secured the sixth position among Asian cities in the “Global Liveability Index 2024″ report, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a British economic analysis firm. According to Busan city officials on July 3, the EIU annually evaluates and ranks major global cities [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, appears to have entered a phase of extinction due to low birthrates and superaging population, becoming the nation’s first metropolitan city to do so, said a research paper published on Friday. The paper from the Korea Employment Information Service estimated Busan’s ratio of the [...]
BUSAN, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — With its focus on curating female artists and showcasing emerging galleries that highlight young and experimental artists, this year’s Art Busan appears to deviate from its traditional role as solely an art market. To emphasize its focus, the country’s largest art fair in the first half of the year [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting next year, students in Busan with three or more siblings will receive priority in admission to their preferred general high schools, the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education announced on March 27. In a meeting of the Committee for High School Admissions for the 2025 academic year, held on March [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean port city of Busan experienced a sharp rise in international tourist arrivals last year as the country’s travel industry continued its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to government data released on Friday. The number of foreign visitors to Busan in 2023 soared to more than 1.8 [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Asia’s largest drone exhibition, the 2024 Drone Show Korea, has commenced at the BEXCO exhibition center in Busan, showcasing the current and future advancements in drone technology. Now in its eighth year, the exhibition has been organized on an unprecedented scale. Participants from 10 countries, totaling 228 companies, are presenting [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been several years in the making, but the southeastern port city of Busan will finally host the world championships in table tennis starting this week. Busan, 320 kilometers from Seoul, will hold the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Team Table Tennis Championships from Friday to Feb. [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In Busan, South Korea, individuals over the age of 50 are approaching half of the city’s total population. According to statistics released by Busan Metropolitan City on January 10, as of 2022, this age group comprised 1.53 million people, or 46.5% of the city’s population. The breakdown of this demographic [...]
SEOUL/BUSAN, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Wednesday they plan to seek an arrest warrant for the suspect in the stabbing attack against opposition leader Lee Jae-myung during his visit to the southeastern port city of Busan. The suspect, identified only by his surname Kim, 66, is accused of stabbing Lee, the chairman of [...]