SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Wednesday it will establish 13 new state-run King Sejong Institutes in 11 countries for foreigners wanting to learn the Korean language and culture. With the additions, the number of King Sejong Institutes, a public institution run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to promote [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on Thursday that it will push for a follow-up to last year’s “Year of the Book” to encourage citizens to read books daily. Last year, the “Year of the Book” project focused on conducting various campaigns to increase awareness of reading [...]
HANOI, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A class on Korean family culture has been launched in Vietnam to help educate local brides of their new lives in Korea. The classes are intended to prevent daughter and mother-in-law conflicts, as a portion of Vietnamese wives end up living with their Korean in-laws. Having run other classes [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Culture Heritage Administration announced on August 24 that for 50,000 won, anyone can be a king or queen – for about two hours. The actual announcement made by the administration was that from September 3 to 24, Gyeongbokgung Palace will host two sessions of evening tours during which [...]
CHEONGJU, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Geopolitical tensions are having a real effect on the Korean economy as North Chungcheong Province announced on August 15 that the low-cost carrier Eastar Jet had abandoned its plans to resume flight operations from Chungcheong International Airport to five Chinese cities. Since the cooling of relations between China and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kicking off Monday is an exhibition of works that portray Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, from the eyes of foreigners. According to the Korean Culture and Information Service, the exhibit is a collection of 300 prize-winning works from Talk Talk Korea 2016, a contest that was held this year [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s culture and entertainment business has seen its high-speed ups and downs in just a couple of years, with a former music video director who made a meteoric rise now facing criminal charges. Cha Eun-taek, who made a name for himself from making hit TV ads and music [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has designated Daegu, a city southeast of Seoul, to represent the country as the “Culture City of East Asia” next year in a joint program aimed at promoting cultural exchanges with China and Japan. The metropolitan city government on Tuesday announced that Daegu earned the [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean literature attracted international attention with Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. And to add to the heightened interest, the Korea Foundation (KF), which operates under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is hosting what it calls a ‘Korean Literary Workshop for International Doctoral Program [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Korea is presenting some 1,400 artifacts of ancient Afghanistan, including a gold crown from Tillya Tepe, an archaeological site in the northern part of the country. “Ancient Afghanistan was an abridged edition of the world,” said a museum official. “The artifacts and their material groups show [...]