SEOUL, March 23 (Yonhap) – Normally, a 100-person-deep queue in front of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul would hardly raise any eyebrows. After all, it’s the most iconic attraction in the city. In a wintry March evening, though, it very well may have — not only because palaces are often closed after dark, but because these [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The yellow flowers of wintersweet trees at Changdeok palace have announced the arrival of spring. White Japanese apricot flowers and yellow sansuyu flowers fully blossomed near Nakseonjae and Geumcheon bridge, and the wintersweet flowers at the back of the palace are ready to blossom. Japanese apricot flowers and sansuyu flowers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced that next year’s plan for its ‘Vivid Cultural Heritage’ program has been confirmed. The program uses the meaning and value of cultural assets as cultural content, to allow citizens to experience heritage vividly. The CHA selected 88 businesses among 197 applications that were submitted [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is pushing for the UNESCO listing of documentary heritage related to Japan’s wartime forced labor of Koreans, diplomatic sources said Sunday. The move is apparently intended to counter the July listing of 23 Japanese industrial facilities, where many Koreans were forced to work under harsh conditions during World [...]
Seoul, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Cultural Heritage Administration has announced that they will be opening Gyeongbokgung Palace and Changgyeonggung Palace at night from August 11 to August 28. The special opening hours will be from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., and visitors should enter before 9 p.m. The National Palace Museum of Korea, located inside Gyeongbokgung [...]
Seoul, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Visitors numbers at ancient cultural sites have decreased due to Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). According to statistics published by the Cultural Heritage Administration, the number of people who visited cultural sites in June was about 4.1 million, a 51.2% decrease compared to the same period last year. This is the lowest [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s traditional folk music “Nongak” is expected to be on the list of UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage. The Cultural Heritage Administration in South Korea announced on October 29 that a subsidiary body of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage recommended Nongak, literally meaning “farmer’s music,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cultural Heritage Administration said on October 19 that it is currently working on establishing a comprehensive plan to preserve the Tripitaka Koreana, or “Eighty-Thousand Tripitaka,” a Korean collection of 13th century Buddhist scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks stored in Haein-sa, a Buddhist temple in South Gyeongsang Province. [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Night tour to Gyeongbok Palace which offers splendid night view of the major Joseon Dynasty palace enjoys huge popularity among local Koreans. Reflecting its popularity, all the tickets allocated for Internet reservations were sold out in an hour. According to Auction which managed the Internet ticketing of the night tour [...]