SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More foreigners have shown interest in visiting South Korea’s southeastern port city of Busan, industry data showed Wednesday, amid the government’s efforts to pursue balanced regional tourism growth. According to the data from Skyscanner, an online site that compares trip prices, the number of searches for a round-trip ticket [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Many of the world’s most accomplished magicians gathered yesterday at the Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae-gu, Busan, for a press conference held to promote the magic show “La Grande Illusion”, which will run from June 29 to July 8. Present at the press event included Korea’s leading magician, Yu [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The local city government of Busan announced today that it was initiating a so-called “Knock Knock Service”, which will analyze cell phone records to check in on local city residents. The service follows recent government efforts to prevent solitary deaths, which have been on the rise. The number of [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A café in Busan is embroiled in controversy after banning teenage students from entering the establishment. In a poster affixed to the front door, the café says that middle school and high school students are not welcome following a spate of poor behavior including swearing, speaking rudely, and spitting on [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan municipal government said Thursday it will build a fashion business center in the city’s central region to help foster the textile and fashion industry in South Korea’s second-biggest city. The six-story Busan Fashion Business Center will be built on 1,613 square meters of land in Beomil-dong with [...]
BUSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The coastal city of Busan, home to South Korea’s second largest city-dwelling population along with one of the busiest ports in the world, boasts more skyscrapers within its limits than any other South Korean city. Besides its enviable skyline unrivaled by domestic peers, the city is also home to [...]
BUSAN, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern port city of Busan will host an LPGA Tour event for three years starting in 2019, officials announced Wednesday. The Asiad Country Club in Busan, some 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will host a yet-to-be-named tournament. An agreement between the city authorities and the LPGA was reached [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of schools in Busan are turning to IoT (Internet of Things) technology to protect students from fine dust. According to the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education on Saturday, an IoT-based air quality control system that will help keep the air inside classrooms clean and safe for students will [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Yeonje District announced on February 5 that it will distribute LED sensor lights in the homes of residents who may be at risk of “lonely death”. Lonely death refers to a social phenomenon where individuals are discovered dead in their living quarters days or sometimes weeks after their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has tapped the country’s administrative hub of Sejong and the southeastern port city of Busan as test beds for the realization of smart cities, a presidential committee said Monday, as Asia’s fourth-largest economy searches for new growth engines. Various innovative technologies, ranging from autonomous vehicles to facial [...]