SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, marking its 25th anniversary, will kick off at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) on February 5, offering the first glimpse of upcoming fall and winter fashion trends for 2025. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced five key highlights for this year’s event: an expanded designer lineup and presentations, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea’s biggest biannual fashion show, will kick off its five-day run next week to showcase 33 Korean fashion houses that range from established to up-and-coming, officials said Thursday. The fashion show for the 2023 spring-summer season will be held from Tuesday to Saturday at the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A nighttime light show will take place in central Seoul for about two weeks to celebrate the end of this year and the beginning of next year, municipal officials said Wednesday. The light show, dubbed “Seoul Light,” will be staged at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, or DDP, from Friday [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The iconic Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul will turn into a canvas of light, color and spectacular images when the city launches a new annual festival of light during the year-end season. The inaugural “DDP Light” event will take place from Dec. 20 to Jan. 3 featuring a [...]
Visitors to Dongdaemun Design Plaza from September 21 through 27 will get to take a look at toilets of the future. (Image: UNIST) ULSAN, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Visitors to Dongdaemun Design Plaza from September 21 through 27 will get to take a look at toilets of the future. Named Walden 1.0 and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization is operating what is being called a “Souvenir Truck”, visiting Seoul’s most renowned tourist attractions. The venture took off on September 30 at the east plaza of COEX (Convention and Exhibition Center), to mark the start of [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Tired of playing your favorite games on a tiny 5-inch screen? Google Korea announced on July 12 that it will temporarily operate a Google Play Arcade at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul from July 29 to August 24. Game lovers will be able to enjoy playing thirty popular mobile games [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Dongdaemun Design Plaza, the large-scale urban development project famous for being designed by Iraqi British architect Zaha Hadid, has opened for business on March 21. For the first few days the area was crowded with visitors to see the newest landmark while shopping in the plaza’s basement [...]