SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Binggrae, a food and beverage enterprise famous for its signature banana-flavored milk, announced that it will open a banana-flavored milk themed ‘Yellow Café’ at a flagship store located in the Dongdaemun branch of Hyundai Outlet Store. The new establishment is Binggrae’s first foray into the café market. Beverages such as [...]
Seoul, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Suzy Menkes, the most famous fashion journalist in the world over the past 50 years, has visited Dongdaemun Fashion Town in Seoul. Menkes, accompanied by Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, visited Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Doota, where many young designers are gathered, and the Dongdaemun Composite Market, the biggest fabric market [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Networks, who proposed using the Cerestar building for a new duty-free shop, unveiled plans to develop the Dongdaemun area to make it into an Asian Broadway. The retail arm of SK Group, the third largest family-run conglomerate in Korea, already proposed investing 450 billion to 550 billion won (US$460 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to boost the number of foreign visitors to Korea and to expand awareness of the 4DX movie experience, the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and CJ 4DPLEX will air a new video advertisement on Korea in 4DX theaters around the world. KTO and CJ signed an MoU on January [...]
“I am deeply concerned about the situation of the people who lost their jobs before our investment in Ssangyong Motor. I also worry about the sit-in strikers on the plant’s chimney, and earnestly ask them to come down. The culture of confrontation is not right, I think, and I believe in the value of communication.” [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Oscar trophy that Audrey Hepburn received in 1954 for her role in “Roman Holiday” will come to Seoul as the first Oscar trophy exhibited to the public in Korea. The trophy Hepburn garnered as the best actress that year will be exhibited as a part of the “Audrey Hepburn, BEAUTY [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor said on October 31 that it would open “Aslan Space,” a special limited-time exhibition space, to allow visitors to experience the performance of the Aslan in five locations across the country including the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in downtown Seoul for six days between November 1 and 6. To the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 14th Seoul Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015 is planned to be held from October 17 to 22 at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul. The fashion week, hosted by the Seoul metropolitan city government and jointly organized by the Seoul Design Foundation and the Council of Fashion Designers of Korea, will consist [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – During the whole month of July, Seoul will be the heaven for foreign shoppers: The Seoul Metropolitan City government is staging a “Seoul Summer Sale 2014” event in tandem with the upcoming summer holiday season. From July 1 through 31, roughly 1,200 shops in the city including department stores, duty [...]
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 [...]