SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Thursday it will launch a task force with civilian experts to devise better strategies to help promote the Asianwide boom of South Korean pop culture. The “hallyu planning body” will be composed of officials from six relevant government agencies, three major TV networks — KBS, MBC [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of Korean pop culture abroad helped increase production of the country’s cosmetics, gaming, tourism and beverages industries by billions of won in 2014, data showed Sunday. The growing popularity of hallyu, or the Korean wave, the name for Asianwide popularity of Korean pop culture, has been making inroads [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A new fashion smartphone app has become a huge success in China. Interpark, an online market operator in Korea, announced on April 29 that its fitUin fashion application broke through the 100,000 download mark in China just one month after its release. The app enables users to try on [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Riding Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, cosmetics products have developed into strong moneymaking export items as they set records for exports and trade surplus last month. According to the Korea Customs Service, the value of cosmetics exports in March was US$277.5 million, the largest amount since the office began [...]
WANDO, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Cheongsan Island, one of Korea’s slow cities, is the 7th drama location among the list of the 10 most favored tourist destinations in Korea by Japanese tourists, according to an announcement from the island’s county on January 18. The Korea Tourism Organization Fukuoka Branch conducted the survey on 246 Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean beer exports to Iraq are gaining traction, helping local breweries that are moving to diversify their target markets to bolster growth, data showed Sunday. Exports of Korean beer to the country reached 6,384 tons, or US$4.48 million, last year, putting South Korea as the country’s third-largest beer supplier. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Just how many Hallyu (Korean Wave) fans are out there? According to a report published on January 12 by the Korea Foundation under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the number of clubs dedicated to Hallyu numbered 1,248 from 79 countries in December 2014. The number of overall club members stood [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Learning Korean craze expands across America. According to the Korean Education Center (KEC) in New York, which opened the Korean Language Institutes during the weekend across America starting September 6, a rising number of U.S. citizens have enrolled in the weekend classes to learn more about Korea. The weekend [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the Hallyu — a wave of popular South Korean culture — sweeping through the entire Asia and now starting to invade the rest of the world, evident from K-pop YouTube videos gathering over 3 billion hits from total 225 countries, “K-pop Expo in Asia,” which will be the largest [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Visitseoul.net announced the infographics from their Hallyu Event survey which was conducted through renewal website and SNS of Visitseoul.net. This survey have taken place in March and over 230 Hallyu(Korean Pop Culture) fans from 8 countries including China, Indonesia and Japan participated. The survey reveals that top interests [...]