JINDO, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The 44th Jindo Miracle Sea Road Festival, held under the theme “The Beginning of Spring, at the Enigmatic Sea,” concluded successfully, attracting tens of thousands of visitors. Designated as an honorary cultural tourism festival by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the event took place from March 11 to [...]
JINDO, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A world-famous sea-parting festival hosted annually by the southwestern South Korean island county of Jindo gets a futuristic upgrade this year using state-of-the-art technology. The 43rd edition of the Jindo Miracle Sea Road Festival, described worldwide as the “Korean version of Moses’ miracle,” will be held from April 20-22, [...]
JINDO, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A world-famous sea-parting festival hosted annually by the southwestern South Korean island county of Jindo will be held only as an online event this year, officials said Sunday. The 42nd edition of the Jindo Miracle Sea Road Festival, described worldwide as the “Korean version of Moses’ miracle,” will be [...]
JINDO, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Miracle Sea Road Festival in Jindo County, South Jeolla Province, dubbed the “Miracle of Modern Moses,” has established itself as a world-class festival. According to Jindo County on Monday, a total of 530,000 tourists visited the 41st Miracle Sea Road Festival from March 21 to 24. Of the [...]
JINDO, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A move to push for a large-scale solar energy project initiated by community citizens for the first time in South Korea is gaining attention. The energy project to be set up on Jindo, an island in South Jeolla Province, will be led by cooperative members and is expected to [...]
JINDO ISLAND, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual festival celebrating a phenomenon described as the “Korean version of Moses’ miracle” kicked off its four-day schedule Wednesday on Jindo Island in the south of the country. Around this time of year, the seawater parts to open a 2.8 kilometer, 40-meter-wide pathway between Jindo Island and [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Wednesday that it plans to move forward with the process of raising the Sewol ferry from the bottom of the sea if mild weather conditions continue. “The hull was carefully test lifted up one meter from the sea bottom,” the Ministry of Oceans and [...]
JINDO, South Korea, August 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Jindo County in South Korea’s South Jeolla Province is promoting the sport of dog racing, not with greyhounds, a typical racing dog, but with Korean Jindo dogs, which are designated as the 53rd natural treasure of South Korea. Dog racing – or greyhound racing – is a popular [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Funding for a special forest in commemoration of victims of the sunken Sewol ferry passed its second phase target of 50 million won, as the nation marked the first anniversary of the tragedy. The Sewol Memorial Forest, to be established on the southwestern island of Jindo, only 4 kilometers away [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jindo Sea in Korea parted and revealed a 2.8-kilometer-long dry seabed, which could be described as a modern day Moses’ miracle, welcoming 610,000 tourists from March 20 to 24. The mysterious event is actually an annual natural phenomenon unique to the Jindo Sea, and has been celebrated by [...]