SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Auto Salon opened Thursday at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in Gangnam, Seoul. The exhibition is offering a wide variety of products and services related to automobile tuning, care, electronics, and consumables. The Seoul Auto Salon first launched in 2003, and has since accumulated over 1 [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Every summer on the grounds of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) a uniquely-formed sculpture pops up. These sculptures are winners of the ‘Young Architects Program’ (YAP), a program co-hosted by the MMCA and New York’s MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). This year, architect Shin Hyeong-chul had [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Korea is presenting some 1,400 artifacts of ancient Afghanistan, including a gold crown from Tillya Tepe, an archaeological site in the northern part of the country. “Ancient Afghanistan was an abridged edition of the world,” said a museum official. “The artifacts and their material groups show [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Sejong Center, along with the Joan Miró Mallorca Foundation, is hosting an exhibition of works by Joan Miró, an internationally acclaimed Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Barcelona. The exhibition, titled ‘Miró In Mallorca. A Wild Spirit’, is by far the largest in terms of size among any other [...]
GOYANG, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is hosting the 14th LED & OLED Expo at Goyang’s KINTEX (Korea International Exhibition Center). The even took off on June 22 and will continue until June 25. Some 350 companies from 15 countries are presenting their LED and OLED lighting technology and related devices and components, and a [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – There are 40 tombs of royal members of the Korean Joseon Dynasty scattered across 18 different sites in Korea. These tombs have been collectively registered as UNESCO World Heritage sites since 2009. To share and honor these highly-regarded artifacts of ancient Korea, the National Palace Museum of Korea is [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Street artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, is hosting his first exhibition in Korea titled ‘Life is Beautiful’. “Everybody only gets one life, and I wanted to portray the beauty of life through my works,” said the French-born artist during a press conference on Monday. The exhibition was [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Palais de Seoul, an art gallery in Seoul, is hosting an art exhibition for artists with savant syndrome from June 14 to 26. Individuals with savant syndrome often score very low on IQ tests, while demonstrating exceptional skills or brilliance in specific areas, such as rapid calculation, art, memory, or [...]
CHEONGJU, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Cheongju is hosting a forum in June where chopstick experts from Korea, China, and Japan will gather. The city hosted the world’s first Chopsticks Festival last year and it plans to present its second this coming November. The representatives of the three countries will discuss cooperative issues [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Bangasayusang (better known as Pensive Bodhisattva in English) is a statue of Buddha characterized by a pensive pose, in which one leg is crossed over another leg, and the elbow of the figure’s raised arm rests on the knee of the crossed leg. This type of statue was first manufactured in [...]