SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Provincial governments have canceled their autumnal festivals one after another as the country mourns the deaths of more than 150 people in a Halloween crowd crush in Seoul. The Busan metropolitan government said Monday it has decided to indefinitely postpone this year’s Busan Fireworks Festival set to be held [...]
SHINAN, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinan, a southwestern county composed of about 1,000 islands, on Thursday announced a decision to cancel its nationally famous spring tulip festival, in-person as well as online, for the second year in a row due to coronavirus fears. The South Jeolla Province county, about 390 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A silver grass festival that takes place at a park in western Seoul every fall has been canceled this year amid concerns over the new coronavirus, the Seoul city government said Saturday. The festival, which draws around 600,000 visitors to Haneul Park in Mapo Ward every year, will instead [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has completed the cancellation of 8,541,356 of its shares. The cancelled shares were acquired as part of Philips’ EUR 1.5 billion share repurchase program that started in the first quarter of 2019. Further details on the repurchase program can be [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Wedding halls will now have to break away from the widespread practice of “exploiting” the deposit money even when couples cancel their bookings months before their wedding day. Furthermore, wedding halls are now banned from charging excessive cancellation fees when newlyweds call off the reservation close to the wedding [...]