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 [...]
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 [...]