SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will return almost to normal after a pandemic-disrupted year, holding an offline opening ceremony with spectators and on-site events with some big-name filmmakers from home and abroad, organizers said Wednesday. The biggest film festival in Asia will be held from Oct. 6-15 [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan metropolitan government plans to host the ‘Star Shining Suyoung River LED Kayak Experience’ at the Suyoung River from Sept. 10-12. Organized by the Busan Federation of Sea Explorers of Korea, the event will offer participants the chance to experience the beautiful night scenery of the Suyoung River [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of an increase in the number of damage cases caused by drivers who rev their engine or violate speed limits in the area of Busan’s Haeundae district, local residents and the municipal government have joined hands to crack down on such behavior. The district Office will [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s social distancing rules will be downgraded to Level 3, the second highest in the nation’s four-tier system, next week after nearly one month of the toughest Level 4 in the southern port city, the municipal government said Friday. It said Level 3 social distancing restrictions will be in [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The port city of Busan has decided to raise social distancing measures to Level 4 starting on Tuesday, which will close down all seven public beaches in the city until Aug. 22. It is unprecedented for public beaches to close down during the peak summer season. Beach gear rental [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan, the nation’s second largest city, raised social distancing rules to the highest level Tuesday, banning private gatherings of more than two people after 6 p.m. and closing all beaches during the peak summer season for the first time. The port city, 453 kilometers southeast of Seoul, has been [...]
BUSAN, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of themed lighthouses in Busan, including one of a fish and another of a baby bottle, will now be equipped with lighting systems to allow guests to visit at night. The Busan Regional Office of Oceans and Fisheries said that it will install lights at four lighthouses [...]
BUSAN, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of the penguin character Pengsoo wearing a protective mask, set up at Gwangalli Beach in Busan last year to the delight of locals, has returned without a mask, instead wearing a bandage on its flipper as proof of a COVID-19 vaccination. Busan’s Suyeong District said that the [...]
BUSAN, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Songjeong Beach, Busan’s top destination for surfers, is opening up this Tuesday and will host an exhibition for surfing and environment-related artworks made with waste. Haeundae District is holding a ‘Junk Art’ exhibition at Songjeong Beach under the title of ‘Songjeong Beach, where even polar bears make a visit’, [...]
BUSAN, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A landfill-turned-botanical garden will be temporarily opened to the public in the southeastern port city of Busan this week, the municipal government said Wednesday. Haeundae Arboretum built on a former landfill site in Seokdae-dong, northern Busan, will partially open Thursday as the first phase of its construction has been [...]