BUSAN, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities are scrambling to ensure a safe game festival, which is expected to attract a massive number of visitors, following the Itaewon crowd crush. On the first day of the annual global game trade fair G-Star at the BEXCO exhibition center in the southeastern port city of Busan on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul International Fireworks Festival was held at Han River Park in Yeouido, Seoul on Saturday. Hosted by Hanwha Group and sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the festival has been held in September or October every year since 2000. Returning after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, [...]
WONJU, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Wonju Dynamic Dancing Carnival opened its curtains on Saturday in Wonju, Gangwon Province for the first time in three years. On the first weekend after the outdoor mask-wearing mandate was fully lifted, downtown Wonju was fully packed with dancing and music. To ensure a safe festival amid the ongoing [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A summer festival spanning the Han River’s riverside parks in Seoul will kick off this week for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Seoul said Sunday. The summer edition of the 2022 Han River Festival will hit the river’s 11 parks across [...]
TRENTO, Italy, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The 17th edition of the Trento Festival of Economics closed yesterday. For the first time, the Gruppo 24 ORE and Trentino Marketing organised the festival on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento and with the contribution of the Municipality of Trento and the University of Trento. The data [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Royal Culture Festival, the country’s largest festival themed on the Korean royal court and its culture, returned Tuesday to an almost-normal state after two years of pandemic-caused disruptions. This year’s event kicked off its spring season with an in-person ceremony at 8 p.m. at the square in front [...]
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 [...]