SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean soldiers picked ‘leave’ as the most desired gift for Christmas this year. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Defense Daily of 1,194 service members, 16.6 percent or 199 of the respondents picked military leave as the Christmas gift they wanted the most. In an open-ended [...]
JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — To coincide with his consignments in Sonicbidder.com’s “Christmas Around the World” auction, JD Pass hosted his own international Christmas celebration at The Vault. What started off as an annual event to ring in the season would go on to bring awareness to the visibility and credibility of the Jackson, Mississippi-area [...]
ORLEANS, Mass., Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Gloriae Dei Cantores’ Musical Advent Calendar shares the gift of music every day of Advent. Click here to receive the Musical Calendar via email and experience glorious music every day of Advent, or visit gdcrecordings.com to follow their Musical Advent Calendar. Looking for more ways to celebrate Christmas? Find peace, recollection and beauty listening to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Christmas on Friday was unlikely any other, as the raging coronavirus pandemic forced churches to hold services online and kept people off the streets on a typically bustling and cheerful holiday. The landmark Myeongdong Cathedral in central Seoul held its Christmas Mass virtually for the first time, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have picked Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” as their favorite Christmas song of all time. Genie Music, the music streaming subsidiary of telecommunications giant KT Corp., reported that Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit song was heard by the greatest number of people over the past three [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Koreans plan to rest on Christmas, a recent study has revealed. A survey conducted by Incruit, a South Korean job portal, and Dooit Survey showed that 41 percent of all respondents planned to rest on Christmas day. Full-time homemakers wanted to take a rest on Christmas day [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group has set up a special tree to spread awareness of environmental pollution in celebration of Christmas and the end of the year. On Monday, the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements launched a campaign to produce a large cigarette butt tree measuring 3 meters in diameter and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A handful of religious and cultural events will take place in Seoul on Christmas Day as the nation celebrates it as a public holiday. An annual Christmas Mass is scheduled for midnight at Myeongdong Cathedral, the country’s biggest, in central Seoul. Church officials said they will hold a ceremony [...]
BONGHWA, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Santa Village in Bonghwa County, North Gyeongsang Province, a popular tourist attraction, opened up on Sunday. Since December 2014, the county has been setting up a Santa Village near Buncheon Station every winter and summer. Buncheon Station, normally a small, countryside train station with more or less 10 visitors [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With Christmas less than a week away, plenty of events are set to take place across the South Korean capital for visitors to bask in the cheery holiday vibes, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government and venue officials. If you are willing to brave the winter chill, a riverside [...]