BUSAN, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A photo of the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony was seen on the main page of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network Thursday. UNESCO attached the photo of the ceremony at the Busan Cinema Center, the iconic main venue of the annual film festival, in an article for providing information [...]
BUSAN, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busanjin-gu District Office held a special exhibition featuring 40 photographs of illegally parked and stopped cars, at the South Gate of Busan Citizen Park on May 6. This exhibition of shame presented various prints of cars parked on sidewalks, crosswalks, near bus stops and under CCTV surveillance cameras. [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Busan is expecting an additional 218.35 billion won (US$ 201.47 million) for its estimated 2014 tax revenues, due to an increase in cigarette tax revenues caused by citizens’ buying spree before the New Year’s cigarette price hike, even though Busan’s population of non-smokers has since increased. According [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A thief in his twenties habitually stole money and goods in residential areas without CCTV. As he didn’t leave any trace of his burglaries, the police found themselves in a helpless situation. However, a smartphone photo taken at one of the crime scenes helped investigators to finally make an [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samjung The Park, Busan‘s only zoo, is under suspicion of conducting illegal logging at a dense forest site, and building an unauthorized children’s playground. As the Busan Metropolitan City government and the Busanjin-gu Office said that they had yet to find evidence of any illegal activity at the zoo, [...]
BUSAN, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Unmanned aerial vehicles will be mobilized to crack down on ships illegally anchoring in sea lanes near the port of Busan. The Busan Port Authority announced that it would utilize drones in its crackdown on floating docks or ships berthed for long periods of time at the wharves in the port. [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Five hospitals in Busan will be treating the less privileged for free, based on mileage points accumulated by Busan citizens. The city of Busan and Dongseo University have been operating a campaign since 2013 where participating citizens track their movements for 90 days and have their steps get converted into mileage [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerate, will play a key role in creating a fund worth 40 billion won (US$35 million) to help develop the country’s film industry, the presidential office said Monday. Lotte will account for half of the proposed fund while Busan Bank and the Busan [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Las Vegas Sands Corp., one of the world’s leading casino and resort developers, officially announced on February 13 at the Busan Metropolitan City Office that it plans to develop an integrated resort at the Busan North Port urban renewal area. George Tanasijevich, CEO of Sands Corp.’s subsidiary Marina Bay Sands, revealed [...]
Busan, Korea, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is to develop the largest maritime engineering aquarium in the world for deep-sea research purposes, such as simulation experiments for the construction of maritime plants. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF), the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the city of Busan hosted a [...]