SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said it has finished installing the country’s largest light-emitting diode (LED) signage in southern Seoul, tapping deeper into the emerging business. The South Korean tech giant said the signage was installed at COEX, which is a shopping mall and convention center, located in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – S.M. Entertainment, South Korea’s leading entertainment management agency, said Thursday it plans to hold a yearlong talent audition in 10 countries in 2018. The 2018 S.M. Global Audition will begin on Jan. 21 at COEX in southern Seoul and be held successively in five other South Korean cities, including [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has become the world’s sixth largest exporter, moving up two notches from 2016, on the back of brisk sales of memory chips and a rally in oil prices, the trade ministry said Tuesday. Exports by Asia’s fourth-largest economy jumped 16.5 percent in the first 11 months of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – International online shopping giant Amazon has announced plans to help South Korean sellers with international sales. Amazon set out plans during its first press conference in South Korea dubbed the ‘Global Selling Conference’, which was held at COEX on Thursday. The international shopping giant discussed its global selling service, ‘Amazon [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The city’s schedule for Friday and Sunday is packed with diverse activities. On Friday, September 29, a temporary stage for the 2017 Gangnam Festival will be set up around the Hyundai Global Business Center in Gangnam. Artists expected to perform are Korean legends Lee Seung Chul and Gummy. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s biggest art fair reported record sales this year, attesting to an expanding domestic market and a growing interest among collectors in Korean artists, the organizer said Monday. The 16th annual Korean International Art Fair (KIAF), held Sept. 20-24 at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2017 Gangnam Street Dance Festival Beat One will be held at Coex on September 6. Starting at 6 p.m., the b-boy and freestyle dance show is expected to boast over 1,000 dance contestants. The itinerary is jam-packed with a dance battle competition, cover dance performances and an EDM [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A global pop culture extravaganza Comic Con Seoul is set to open on Friday afternoon, creating a venue for Korean comic and game fans as well as businesses to check the latest trends and meet globally renowned artists and industry experts from companies like Marvel and Blizzard Entertainment. The [...]
SEOUL, July. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Plans for Seoul’s largest underground construction project yet have been revealed, which will see the city inject 1.3 trillion won into building a massive ‘underground city’ 30 times bigger than Jamsil Baseball Stadium underneath the busy roads of Gangnam by 2023. According to the master plan for the Yeongdong-daero [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest consumer electronics and technology trade fair will kick off in Seoul later this week to showcase the latest mobile gadgets and telecommunications technologies, the ICT ministry said Tuesday. The World IT Show, hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, will kick off Wednesday [...]