CHUNCHEON, South Korea, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The world’s biggest leisure sports festival will be held in the country’s northeastern lake city of Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, next month with foreign and local participants competing in 14 sports events, organizers said Wednesday. The fifth edition of the Chuncheon International Leisure Sports Festival will run from [...]
HWACHEON, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Hwacheon, a county in Gangwon Province, revealed that it will host this year’s Tomato Festival from August 12 to August 15. The 2015 festival was visited by some 115,000 tourists, who purchased over 150-million-won worth of the county’s agricultural products, creating estimated economic spinoffs of 4.2 billion [...]
ROME, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A local preliminary for the 2016 K-pop World Festival took place in Milan, Italy, organizers said on Sunday (local time). A total of 13 teams competed in the event at Elfo Puccini Theater in Milan on Saturday to secure a ticket to perform in the main event scheduled to [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will hold a nationwide shopping festival involving major retailers, manufacturers and traditional markets in the fall to draw foreign travelers and jack up lackluster domestic consumption, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism jointly formed [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – “A musical film is not just a film genre.” “It’s a blend of performing arts and visual arts, taking music and film into one,” said creative director Kim Hong-jun during a press conference for the first ‘Chungmuro International Musical Film Festival (CHIMFF 2016)’ held at Chungmu Art Hall in Jung [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community was held on Saturday near City Hall in downtown Seoul. The festival, themed ‘Queer I Am, Cheers to Who We Are’, took place at Seoul Plaza, and celebrated its 17th anniversary with some 50,000 [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean retail giant Hyundai Department Store is hosting the 2016 Korea Craft Beer Show, which will present some of Korea’s most celebrated beers. The event will take place from June 9 to June 12 at Hyundai Department Store’s Pangyo branch. A total of 20 domestic craft breweries, including Platinum, [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Public libraries are evolving into what is being referred to as ‘culture development centers’. Local governments are renovating and expanding the facilities to better meet their residents’ changing needs. Article 22 of the library law prompts local governments to appoint ‘central libraries’ that serve as the main libraries in [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A court debate took place Monday over this year’s Korea Queer Culture Festival, which has been planned for June 11 at Seoul Plaza. A court questioning session was arranged after an injunction was filed for ‘lewd public performance’ by a Seoul citizen referred to only as Kim, who has [...]
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 [...]