HAENAM, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Dinosaur Festival for Children, hosted by Haenam County in South Jeolla Province from May 5 to 7, ended in great success despite unfavorable weather conditions. This festival, which took place for the first time at the Haenam Dinosaur Museum, attracted an estimated 25,000 visitors until May 7, including [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s longest walking trail linking the southeastern port city of Busan with the southwestern county of Haenam via the scenic southern coast was opened to the public Saturday. The new footpath, named the Namparang (south wave) Trail, runs 1,470 kilometers from Oryukdo Sunrise Park in Busan, 453 km [...]
HAENAM, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean farmers have harvested the first bananas ever to be grown in the country’s southern region. Haenam County in South Jeolla province held a banana harvesting ceremony at a local farm on Thursday, as it plans to harvest 12 tons of bananas from 0.4 hectares of land operated [...]
HAENAM, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Haenam Country in South Jeolla Province will carry out a project to create new forest and mountain areas to promote the economic and public value of woodlands and build a foundation for sustainable forest management. The initiative includes eight hectares of bio-circulated afforestation that supplies biomass raw materials such [...]
HAENAM, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument has been built in Ttangkkeut Village at Haenam County, South Jeolla Province to mark the starting point of an ultra marathon which began last Sunday. Haenam County said that the Korea Ultra Marathon Federation and others held an unveiling ceremony of the monument at the village’s Ttangkkeut [...]
HAENAM, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Bohae Plum Farm in Haenam County, South Jeolla Province, the largest of its kind in South Korea, will hold the 7th Ttangkkeut Maehwa (apricot flowers) Festival on March 16 and 17. The festival is making a comeback after a three-year hiatus due to avian flu, with a variety [...]
HAENAM, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Haenam-gun in South Jeolla Province, boasting six years with the highest birth rate in South Korea, held a stroller festival on Tuesday. Haenam’s Baby Love Festival is held every year to celebrate the town’s leading birth rate and promote birth-friendly culture. Families, local residents, and some 300 people filled [...]
HAENAM, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — When typhoon Soulik was at its peak on August 23, a few urgent requests were posted on a social media platform’s group chatroom by members who are civil servants at the Haenam-eup district office in Haenam-gun, South Jeolla Province. The officials asked for help as trees in the area [...]