SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea commemorated the 80th anniversary of its liberation from Japanese colonial rule with a large-scale government-led ceremony on Thursday, underscoring themes of national unity, historical remembrance, and cultural pride. Held at 10 a.m. at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in central Seoul, the event gathered some [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – President Lee Jae Myung on Friday received letters of appointment from 80 selected individuals in a symbolic ceremony marking his election victory, pledging to carry out their mandates for a better country. The special event, dubbed the “People’s Mandate Ceremony,” was held on the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans ministry said Tuesday it will hold a remembrance ceremony for revered independence fighter Hong Beom-do this week to mark the 80th year since his passing amid a heated ideological debate over his ties to Soviet communist forces. The ceremony will take place Wednesday at Daejeon National Cemetery [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Temples across South Korea held ceremonies celebrating Buddha’s Birthday on Saturday without social distancing measures for the first time in four years. The Jogye Order, the nation’s largest Buddhist sect, began a large-scale ceremony at Jogye Temple in downtown Seoul hosted by Ven. Jinwoo at 10 a.m. With COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Army’s 35th Infantry Division on Wednesday invited families to a ceremony for the completion of Army recruits’ basic military training, for the first time in two years and five months following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Family members filled in the hall at a boot camp [...]
DAEJEON, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s annual Memorial Day service was a low-key event Saturday as a precautionary measure against the new coronavirus that has infected more than 11,000 people here. Veterans, patriots and family members of those who took part in the Korean War and the country’s independence and democracy movements, as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday commemorated International Memorial Day for Comfort Women amid rising diplomatic and trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo. The government-led national ceremony was held at the Kim Koo Museum and Library in central Seoul, with about 300 people from all walks of life, including elderly women [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold the second-ever government-hosted national ceremony to commemorate International Memorial Day for Comfort Women on Wednesday. About 300 people from all walks of life, including elderly women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, will take part in the ceremony at the Kim Koo Museum and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Monday held a solemn ceremony marking the repatriation of the remains of 64 soldiers who were killed in North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War. President Moon Jae-in presided over the repatriation ceremony at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, 40 kilometers south of Seoul, with the [...]
JEJU, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – April 8 on the lunar calendar is Buddha’s Birthday. Converted to the solar calendar, this year’s celebration falls on May 14. To kick-start the festivities, lantern processions celebrating Buddha’s 2560th birthday took place in multiple cities across Korea on Saturday. According to a 2014 Hankook Research study, 18.1 percent [...]