BUSAN, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Gupo Dog Meat Market, in operation 60 years but recently a lightning rod for criticism over animal abuse, will be closed. The merchant association of Busan’s Buk District and Gupo Livestock Market reported on Thursday that it has tentatively agreed to close 19 stores in the market that [...]
BUSAN, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan Pet Family Festival will be held at Busan Cinema Center from June 7 to 9. The festival, first held in 2017, invites both people and their pets to various screenings about animals. Visitors are allowed to bring their pets during outdoor screenings of short films. This year, the [...]
BUSAN, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — On April 22, a solar emergency repeater that was demolished near a shelter on Mount Jiri was brought to Busan. Inside the repeater, there was a squirrel. Officials at the telecom company, who were removing the communications equipment, immediately contacted the Wildlife Medical Center on Eulsuk Island, Busan, under [...]
BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Graffiti works by world-class artists will be painted at Huinnyeoul Culture Village in Busan. As a special exhibition of Art Busan 2019, an annual international art fair, Art Show Busan announced on Thursday that it will hold a mural installation art exhibition jointly with “POW! WOW! Korea” at the [...]
BUSAN, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The ‘15th Haeundae Sand Festival’, an eco-friendly festival based on sand, will be held for four days from May 24 at Haeundae Beach in Busan. Fourteen sand sculpture artists from eight countries, including South Korea, the U.S., Japan, China, Belgium, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands, will create 20 works [...]
BUSAN, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called “phone call bombardments”, which paralyze phone numbers on illegal flyers handed out indiscriminately on the streets, have proven to be an effective deterrent. A month after Busan’s Haeundae District operated launched its phone call operation, illegal leaflets were found to have dropped significantly. According to Haeundae District on [...]
BUSAN, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Yeonje District Office in Busan announced on Monday that the district has been a selected for a project to create a comic book library, a small library and a smart unmanned library, all under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Yeonje District will open [...]
BUSAN, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest annual market for broadcasting content will open Wednesday for foreign buyers and investors. The 13th Busan Contents Market (BCM) will be held from Wednesday to Saturday at the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (BEXCO) in the southern port city of Busan, organizers said. Some 1,100 companies [...]
BUSAN, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An investigation led by the Busan Port Authority (BPA) has revealed that foreign species are flowing into the Busan Port via empty containers shipped from overseas. The BPA conducted a one-month examination of 5,458 empty foreign containers carried out of the port last November. The investigation found live maggots, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of Renault Samsung Motors Corp. has promised to continue investment in South Korea as the Korean unit of Renault S.A. serves as the R&D center for midsize vehicles for the French automaker, Renault Samsung said Wednesday. In his meeting Tuesday with Oh Keo-don, mayor of Busan Metropolitan [...]