SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A much-anticipated sky lantern event sold out the first round of 1,500 tickets only 30 seconds after sales began, and now complaints are mounting among those who failed to secure a ticket. Colorful Merrymaking is an annual sky lantern event which is held by the Daegu Metropolitan City and the [...]
DAEGU, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – These children may be excited to be studying in an unusual set of classrooms made out of shipping containers, but they’re actually victims of a process to rebuild their school. Daegu’s Dongcheon Elementary School was deemed to be unsafe last year, with high susceptibility to natural and other man-made [...]
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 [...]
DAEGU, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – While the Daegu Chicken and Beer Festival is scheduled to kick off on July 27 in Duryu Park, Daegu’s sister city Qingdao, located in Shandong Province, China, announced on July 19 that it would not be participating in this year’s festival. A total of 70 delegations from China, including the [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans are increasingly choosing to install residential solar cell panels at their homes. Last year, solar power generating units were supplied to 42 households in Daegu, and that number will go up to 600 this year. In April, 251 households from 34 apartment complexes applied for the panels. Under the [...]
DAEGU, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Daegu’s Yangnyeongsi (herbal medicine market) celebrated its 358th birthday with the ‘2016 Daegu Yangnyeongsi Herb Medicine Culture Festival’ from May 4 to 8. Herbal medicine still plays a big role in Korea despite prevalent Western medical practices. There are several Yangnyeonsi across Korea. The one in Seoul is considered the most [...]
DAEGU, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Daegu residents will soon be able to find out where wild boars frequently appear using a new smartphone application. According to the Daegu Environmental Protection Agency and KT’s Daegu Customer Service headquarters, an agreement was reached to establish a system to prevent damage from wild boars through IoT (Internet of Things) [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s two tech giants — SK Telecom Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. – will team up with a local city government to construct an Internet of Things (IoT) trial town, officials said Monday. They plan to install the IoT infrastructure across Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to be designated [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – An inter-city bus connecting major tourist attractions in South Korea began operations on Friday to provide foreign travelers with a convenient transportation option and introduce hidden treasures, a tourism promotion agency said. The “K-travel Bus” exclusively serves foreigners who want to travel outside the capital city, to boost travel [...]
DAEGU, Aug.31 (Korea Bizwire) – Municipal officials in Daegu have announced that a halal assured Korean restaurant is expected to open soon. Korean restaurants catering to Muslim tourists are still relatively rare, as currently there is only one halal assured Korean restaurant in Seoul. City officials announced that they would be supporting a Korean Muslim [...]