SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Park Jin on Thursday said South Korea “gave its best” in its campaign to host the 2030 World Expo, after the southeastern city of Busan lost to Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh in a vote earlier this week. Park made the remarks responding to reporters at the 5th International [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to establish a public corporation in April tasked with constructing an international airport on Gadeok Island in South Korea’s southeastern port city of Busan, according to officials Thursday. The transportation ministry said it will issue an advance notice of the legislation and related enforcement ordinance for [...]
SEOUL/PARIS, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Eiffel Tower and the telephone are just a couple of the groundbreaking inventions that were introduced at the World Expo, a prestigious global fair held every five years with the potential to generate economic benefits and stimulate job creation. Since its inaugural event in 1851, the Paris-based Bureau [...]
SEOUL/PARIS, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The vote for the host city of the 2030 World Expo is set to take place in Paris on Tuesday, with South Korea’s southeastern city of Busan making last-ditch efforts to pull off an upset in the competition against two other candidates. The host country will be selected by the member [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has been promoting Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo with displays in major European cities, company officials said Friday. Samsung recently installed new billboards advertising the southeastern port city’s attractions and displaying a message of support for Busan’s expo bid [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The top diplomats of South Korea, China and Japan will hold trilateral talks in the southeastern port city of Busan this weekend, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday, amid fresh tensions after North Korea’s launch of a military spy satellite. Foreign Minister Park Jin will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier arrived at a naval base in the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, South Korea’s Navy said, hours after North Korea notified Japan of a plan to launch a space rocket in the coming days. The nuclear-powered vessel of Carrier Strike Group 1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — G-Star, South Korea’s biggest annual gaming trade show, was set to kick off in the southeastern port city of Busan on Thursday, its organizer said. A total of 1,037 companies from 42 countries will operate more than 3,320 booths at BEXCO until Sunday, making this year’s G-Star the biggest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A member each from leading K-pop groups (G)I-dle, aespa and Ive have joined forces for a collaborative single promoting Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Soyeon of (G)I-dle, Winter of aespa and Liz of Ive will drop “Nobody” on Thursday at 6 p.m., the single’s production company, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it has launched a campaign to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo at this week’s summit gathering of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco. Hyundai said it will mobilize custom-designed units of its electrified Ioniq 5, [...]