YONGIN, South Korea, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Everland, Korea’s largest theme park and the crown jewel of Samsung C&T Corporation, became the first Korean business enterprise to exceed 4 million page likes on Facebook, which is roughly one fourth of Korean Facebook users (16 million). The park’s Facebook page was launched in January 2011, [...]
YONGIN, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Two pandas at Everland were presented with special treats Sunday to celebrate their upcoming third and fourth birthdays. Ai Bao (lovely treasure) and Le Bao (pleasant treasure) are Chinese giant pandas who flew some 2,400km to Korea from China a little over four months ago on March 3. The [...]
YONGIN, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – June 21 marks World Giraffe Day. It was first initiated in 2014 by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation with the intention to “raise support, create awareness and shed light on the challenges giraffes face in the wild”. To mark the occasion, a zoo in Yongin, Everland Lost Valley, has arranged [...]
YONGIN, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A pair of Chinese panda bears that arrived in South Korea last month were unveiled to the public for the first time at an amusement park here Friday, as the city of Yongin hopes the animals will draw more tourists to the region. The pandas, named Ai Bao and Le Bao, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A pair of giant pandas born in China will fly to South Korea as early as next month to live at an amusement park owned by Samsung Everland, company officials said Thursday. South Korea and China designated Samsung Everland as the host for the bears after Beijing decided to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Everland amusement park will be adding a couple of rare panda bears to its animal roster, and will share them with the public starting next year. The resort construction sector of Samsung C&T Corporation signed an agreement with the wildlife protection society of China to cooperate on protecting pandas. [...]
YONGIN, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Everland has announced the opening of its Kochia Festival, which is exhibiting hundreds of thousands of red Kochias all over the theme park. The scientific name of Kochia is ‘Kochia Scoparia’, and they turn red earlier than other foliage, and into a deeper color. They can easily be seen [...]
YONGIN, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – There is a couple that has been in love for the past 25 years at the ‘Lost Valley’ in the safari park at Everland, a theme park outside of Seoul. The giraffe couple, Jangdari and Jangsuni, have lived at Lost Valley since they were born in 1986. Since they [...]
SEOUL, Sept.7 (Korea Bizwire) – Youkes (Chinese tourists) have chosen Korea as the kindest country they have visited. According to Hotels.com, an online hotel reservation site, 14 percent of Chinese tourists answered that Korea was the kindest country they have visited, with Thailand (9 percent) and Japan (7 percent) ranked next. The countries that Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – To revitalize Korea’s tourism industry and domestic demand dented by the recent outbreak of the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, the “Korea Grand Sale” will run for 79 days from August 14 to October 31. The Visit Korea Committee announced on August 11 that this year’s Korea Grand Sale would [...]