SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have sought an arrest warrant for a teenager for drawing 44-meter-long graffiti on the walls of a historic palace in central Seoul last weekend, officials said Thursday. The 17-year-old, only identified by his surname Im, is accused of spray painting the phrase “free movie” in Korean on both [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — New graffiti was found on the walls of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul, officials said Monday, a day after police began hunting down the suspects behind the 44-meter vandalism on the historic site. The police received a report of new graffiti at 10:20 p.m. Sunday. It was found on [...]
GUNSAN, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The wall surrounding an elementary school in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province, has been painted with images of members of the K-pop supergroup BTS. Lee Jong-bae, a graffiti artist from the city, painted the faces of each BTS member on the wall, which can be recognized from afar. Since 2021, [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A 27-year-old American man has been extradited to South Korea for allegedly breaking into subway train garages across the country and spray-painting graffiti on trains, police said Thursday. The American is under suspicion of breaking into nine subway train garages in Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon and six other regions together [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the two foreigners who painted illegal graffiti on subway cars after breaking into a subway depot in South Korea has been apprehended by the Romanian police. Incheon’s Nonhyeon Police Station said Monday it had asked the Romanian government to turn over a 26-year-old American charged with trespassing [...]
BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Graffiti works by world-class artists will be painted at Huinnyeoul Culture Village in Busan. As a special exhibition of Art Busan 2019, an annual international art fair, Art Show Busan announced on Thursday that it will hold a mural installation art exhibition jointly with “POW! WOW! Korea” at the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government decided on Sunday to sue the graffiti artist responsible for tagging a section of the Berlin Wall that is placed near Cheonggyecheon Stream. The city of Berlin donated the section of wall to Seoul in 2005 as a symbol of peaceful unification of the Korean [...]
DAEGU, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — After two foreign nationals reportedly broke into a Daegu subway station at night and spray-painted graffiti on a train car, Korean subways are being criticized for lax security measures. According to the Suseong Police Station in Daegu, Greek and German nationals in their twenties, who arrived in Korea on [...]