BUSAN, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The second-largest South Korean city of Busan is bustling with excitement and preparations Friday as tens of thousands of fans are set to visit the city to see K-pop world stars BTS over the weekend. The septet will arrive in Busan on Saturday to throw the Busan leg of [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Transportation Corporation announced on Wednesday that it will expand its “Pink Light” service, a notification device for pregnant women, which is currently operating on the city subway lines No. 1 and 3, to all lines starting from the second half of this year. “Pink Light” is the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The former site of a United States Forces Korea (USFK) facility in Busan, the southern port city, is still contaminated with dioxin, a Group 1 carcinogen, a civic activist group said Wednesday. Green Korea United said dioxin has been detected at the former site of the USFK’s Defense Reutilization [...]
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 [...]