GOYANG, South Korea, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s biggest design business exhibition, Design Korea 2016, kicked off Wednesday at KINTEX. With this year’s theme of “DESIGN KOREA, Beyond Asia”, the five-day event has been categorized into exhibits, business conferences, and other design-related events taking place both at KINTEX and across the country. The main [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2016 Cheonggyecheon Upcycle Festival Ryu, an exhibition of upcycled artwork by both amateurs and professionals, kicked off Friday at Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon stream, a public recreational space that runs through the capital. A total of 123 works are bring presented at the festival, 29 of which were winners of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – British photographer Nick Knight is hosting his first Seoul exhibition at Daelim Museum, and has brought with him some photos that have never been exhibited before, including shots with his fellow skinheads from the late 1970s to early 80s. Titled “Knick Knight: Image,” the exhibition combs through his beliefs [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is hosting a special exhibition by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson is best recognized for his sculptures and installation art with elements such as light and water that he uses to enhance the artistic experience. “The Parliament of Possibilities” is the theme for the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Byeongin Persecution, the Archdiocese of Seoul has arranged a special exhibit entitled “Memory & Commemoration”. The Byeongin Persecution is among the deadliest religious persecutions in Korea’s recorded history. It took place from 1866 to 1871, during which some 8,000 Catholics including foreign missionaries [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced Friday that it will begin a pilot project of what its calling an ‘Artist Fee System’, in an effort to ease the financial burden on artists and help them focus on their creative endeavors. Artist fees are wages paid to artists [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Marking the 130th anniversary of diplomatic exchange between Korea and France, Seoul’s Total Museum of Contemporary Art has arranged a special exhibit featuring modern installation and media art that has been recognized in France. Entitled “Through the Listening Glass” in a nod to the famous Lewis Carroll novel ‘Through [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is among the countries most affected by the Cold War. The decades that followed the Korean War, which split the Korean peninsula in two, were a time of tension, mistrust, and agitation in South Korea, and not only with the enemies to the north; South Koreans turned [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been over 70 years since Korea claimed independence from its most painful history, the Japanese occupation. Korea’s reclamation of freedom was made official on August 15, 1945. But the years that followed were a period of confusion and chaos. Highlighting the turbulent era, the Seoul Museum of [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chinese trade vessel from the current city of Ningbo was heading towards modern-day Fukuoka, Japan, when it sank in the coastal waters of Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, in 1323. The ship’s existence came to light 650 years later when a Korean fisherman retrieved six pieces of Chinese [...]