SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice Festival, a popular winter event hosted by the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, has been canceled due to COVID-19. The county is again facing a crisis to deal with large stocks of mountain trout for the second consecutive year. It reported that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A world of surrealism is going to cover up the entire 220-meter-long facade of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul. The Seoul Design Foundation announced that the 2021 Seoul Light festival will begin on Dec. 17. The Seoulight festival, which was first held in 2019, is one of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean alcoholic drinks are gaining popularity in Brazil as the so-called Korean Wave sweeps throughout the country. The Korean Cultural Center in Sao Paulo on Sunday (local time) hosted a Korean traditional drink competition. The event, held for the third time, pitted 116 professional bartenders against each other, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hong Kong Cultural Center in Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong was filled with a K-Pop dance heat on Saturday night. Some 1,200 spectators showed up at the “K-pop Dance Festival: The Evolution of K-pop” to watch Hong Kong choreographers perform K-pop cover dances in the center’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A two-day Korean culture festival will bring together K-pop acts like NCT Dream and aespa next month to provide comfort to people around the world who are exhausted from COVID-19, the culture ministry said Wednesday. “The K-Culture Festival – 2021 World K-pop Concert” will take place at the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — On a sunny autumn afternoon, hundreds of traditional Korean lanterns with silk shades of all different colors fluttered gently in the breeze at a courtyard of the Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul. Visitors wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus busily took photos of themselves against the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Belgium on Friday (local time) hosted the Korean Culture Days festival at Brussels’ Brouckere Plaza in celebration of the 120th anniversary of Korea-Belgium diplomatic relations. On the first day of the festival, the K-pop World Festival: Belgium gathered 15 finalists to compete in K-pop [...]
Hong Kong, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and the joy of family reunions, VistaJet, the first and only global business aviation company, introduces Moonlight Infusions. For a limited time, clients are invited to celebrate the festival on board with a bespoke tea and mooncake pairing session, as well as a personalized Tea Flight Experience while [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A “hallyu” festival featuring K-pop bands, such as Pentagon and Monsta X, will kick off online this week, the culture ministry said Sunday. “Mokkoji Korea,” hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and organized by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange, will run from Monday through [...]
SAMCHEOK, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal officials in Samcheok, Gangwon Province have opted to cancel the city’s canola flower festival for the second straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Samcheok’s Geundeok region used to be filled with yellow canola flowers along the old National Highway No. 7, looking over the sea, every April. [...]