BUSAN, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – On the first day of the official election campaign, a college student was arrested for tearing down posters as part of his expression of rage at high tuition fees. The police from Busan’s Nambu Station announced that they are currently investigating university student Kim (20) for damaging election posters. [...]
BUSAN, Dec.21 (Korea Bizwire) – In the not-so-distant future, the number of movies or videos produced with the support of the ‘Cinema City’, Busan, will exceed 1,000. The Busan Film Commission announced that it has supported the production of 993 movies and videos over the past 15 years. This year, a total of 93 videos [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Mongolia agreed Wednesday to open a direct air route linking South Korea’s second-largest port city of Busan and Ulaanbaatar in March next year. The deal was reached during talks between South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn and his Mongolian counterpart, Chimediin Saikhanbileg, in the capital city [...]
BUSAN, Dec.16 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘One Stop Happiness Basket Center’, where citizens can file paperwork related to marriage and children all at once, has opened at the Geumjeong Community Health Center in Busan. The plan to manage the center won first place at the ‘Government 3.0 Life Cycle Service’ contest. In only one visit, [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 1.3 million people gathered at Gwangalli Beach last weekend to marvel at the pyrotechnics of the Busan Fireworks Festival. As the official fireworks viewing zones were expanded to Igidae Cliff and Dongbaekseom Island, the visitors were spread out over a larger area than in previous years. While [...]
BUSAN, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Sea Festival, the largest summer festival in Korea, will be held at various beaches in the southeastern port city from August 1 to 8. With the slogan, “Into the Sea of Festival,” its opening evening will be held on a street near Haeundae Beach, where some 3,000 [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Robot fish that can swim flexibly like real fish will be displayed permanently at the Korea National Maritime Museum in Busan. According to the maritime museum, it will display five robot fish at its maritime experience hall from July 28. Among the five robots, three will swim in the [...]
ULSAN, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Ulsan coastguard officers have announced that they rescued a Loggerhead turtle in the East Sea off the coast of Gijang-gun in the city of Busan. The turtle is 93 centimeters in length, between 300 and 350 kilograms in weight, and is estimated to be 100 years old. It was [...]
SEJONG, July 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea plans to transform Busan into the world’s No. 2 transshipment cargo port by 2020 by building up infrastructure and streamlining operations, the government said Tuesday. The move could enable the country’s largest sea port to outstrip Hong Kong for the second place slot among the world’s transshipment harbors and place [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Busan has changed Songdo Landfill’s development scheme to embrace a ratio of 80 percent residential buildings to 20 percent business-use buildings, from the current ratio of 50 to 50. With the change, buildings of more than 60 floors will be authorized for development at the site [...]