PYEONGTAEK, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Call it Song Francisco or Gyeonggi Province’s Itaewon. If you are fed up with hanging around Itaewon in Seoul, it can be an alternative as it’s handy for those living in the capital. Far smaller and calmer than the ever-bustling Itaewon district, but rustic and filled with exotic charm, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Taking a taxi in an unfamiliar city can be an uncomfortable experience that sometimes leaves one wondering if the driver is cheating on the cab fare. This was proven true with a recent investigation revealing that certain Seoul taxi drivers are cheating tourists by charging ludicrous rates. Such illicit [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials from Yongsan-gu, Seoul, have announced that the Itaewon Global Village Festival will be held on October 17 and 18. The local government says that the festival will be the biggest in size compared to previous festivals held in the past years. Most events will take place on Itaewon’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The prime suspect in a famous unsolved murder that occurred at a fast food restaurant in Itaewon, Seoul, will be extradited to Korea after 16 years on the run. The Ministry of Justice announced that Arthur Patterson, who is suspected of stabbing a college student in the restroom of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of foreign residents continues to increase rapidly, the housing rental market targeting them is expanding and diversifying. According to real estate industry watchers, the preferred residential areas for foreigners are expanding from traditionally popular places like Hannam-dong, Itaewon and Yongsan to Mapo in Seoul, Songdo in Incheon and Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – In the early 1980s, when overseas travelling was not common in Korea, one had to go to Namdaemun Market or Itaewon to purchase a wheeled suitcase for travelling. To remember such history, the Seoul Metropolitan Government set up a large-sized traveler monument with a red traveling suitcase on August 31. Located [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Like choosing cosmetics after using a sample, a new trend is emerging of “liquor samplers” in Korea’s liquor industry. According to the industry, Baesangmyun Brewery, a traditional Korean rice wine maker, offers four kinds of “Slow City Brewery Makgeolli” in the sampler course at its “Slow City Brewery & [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A convenience store chain in Korea plans to offer affordable smartphone battery replacements instead of time-consuming charging services. BGF Retail, the company behind the CU convenience store chain, announced on April 14 that it would begin the battery replacement service in May. The service offers fully charged smartphone batteries [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The internet’s most searched term for popular places in Seoul in the second half of 2014 turned out to be the Hongdae area. According to an analysis conducted by Cheil Data and Analytics Center on 258,000 search keywords input by 3,200 people, 29.8 percent of the search keywords about Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Convenience stores usually sell simple items such as snacks, drinks and other daily necessities. Now, they are transforming themselves into private lockers, meeting rooms and concert halls providing a variety of “spaces.” According to BGF Retail, the franchiser responsible for the CU convenience store chain, its CU Itaewon Freedom store [...]