BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Busan Metropolitan City is building on its cool roof project from last year to prepare the city for heat waves this summer. Busan’s cool roof project assists with painting roofs in the city white, which helps to reflect sunlight and prevent the building from heating up. Over 400 residential [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s multi-billion-dollar project to build a new airport in the country’s southeast got a boost as it passed a crucial preliminary feasibility test, the transport ministry said Monday. The Korea Development Institute (KDI), a state-run think tank, approved the feasibility study for the 5.97 trillion won (US$5.2 billion) [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A Japanese Catholic priest, Jun Nakai, expressed remorse and support at a demonstration yesterday for the comfort woman statue near the Japan Consulate General in Busan. “When I saw a documentary four years ago about comfort women, I was shocked to hear from one survivor that the reason she asks [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – You’ll soon be able to enjoy great music and literature with a nice view of Haeundae Beach as a new café laden with books and featuring local radio DJs is coming to one of South Korea’s most popular holiday destinations in early April, the Haeundae District Office announced yesterday. Busan’s [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past few years, Busan, Korea’s second most populous city, has grown increasingly popular as a cruise destination. The number of tourists arriving on cruise ships, which topped 50,000 in 2011, began to increase rapidly beginning in 2012, jumping to 113,000 in 2013, and then doubling again to [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Taking off next Monday is the Busan Autumn Travel Weeks festival, which will run for two weeks, until November 6. What is different this year though is its theme, “Hunting for Busan’s Treasures from Movies”. According to the event’s organizing body – a joint venture between the Busan Metropolitan [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Renault Samsung Motors, a local subsidiary of Groupe Renault, announced Monday that it will host the 2016 Busan Eco-Rally. During the race, participants will drive around the city in SM3 Z.E. vehicles, the automaker’s full-electric sedan, engaging in various environmentally-friendly missions such as doing dishes using as little water [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Busan International Film Festival opened Thursday with the Korean film industry still divided over the event’s artistic freedom and political independence. The festival runs until next Saturday, and will feature 299 films from 69 countries, a scale almost as large as last year’s 304 films from 75 countries [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Celebrating the coming of Thursday’s World Car Free Day, special “Car-Free Street” performances were arranged at Busan’s Sujeong Market in Dong District. Organized to raise environmental awareness, a flipped-over vehicle was displayed at the market’s main intersection, while a giant balloon model of Earth was also displayed, to which [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A number of world-class movie directors and actors will make appearances at Asia’s largest film festival to be held in South Korea’s largest port city in October, the event’s organizing committee said Monday. This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), set to run from Oct. 6 to 15 in [...]