SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on March 12 that it is preparing to build prayer rooms for Muslims in a couple of the city’s major tourist areas, with the rooms expected to be available for use as early as this summer. The reason South Korea’s largest city is rolling [...]
TOKYO, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100 South Korean food companies joined a food fair in Chiba, Japan, on Tuesday as Korean food is regaining popularity here helped by the growing popularity of “hallyu.” South Korea’s exports of food items to Japan surpassed the US$2 billion mark last year, the highest since 2012, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Baduk, the Korean term for the Chinese board game “go”, is experiencing heightened popularity in Turkey, especially among female players. This was evidenced by the 77-strong female turnout for a baduk tournament hosted at the Middle East Technical University from December 23 to 24. The competition was hosted with [...]
ISTANBUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – K-pop five-man group F.T. Island touched down at Istanbul Atatürk Airport on October 28 and was greeted by hundreds of excited fans calling out members’ names and holding placards, a scene Turkish media reported as causing severe congestion at the airport. The individual members and supporting staff emerged from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest filming studio Studio Cube will formally open its doors to the public next week after two years of construction, the culture ministry said Friday. Located in the EXPO Science Park in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, the state-run facility is a two-story building with floor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cultural content trade surplus, bolstered by the popularity of “hallyu,” or the Korean wave, has decreased significantly in the first six months of 2017 due to China’s economic sanctions over a missile defense system, government data showed Monday. China, South Korea’s biggest overseas market, has retaliated against [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Most international students studying in South Korea believe culture and arts are the country’s biggest strengths, a new survey revealed. According to a survey released yesterday by the Institute of International Education at Kyung Hee University, over 30 percent of the 751 students from 46 countries surveyed said culture and [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The global popularity of hallyu (the Korean Wave) content is gradually waning. Based on an online survey of 7,200 consumers from 15 countries in six continents (from October to December 2016), Monday’s report by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange showed that only 31 percent of the respondents had [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ E&M, South Korea’s leading entertainment and media content company, said Monday it will open new channels exclusively for airing “hallyu” content in Malaysia, Vietnam and Hong Kong. The company said it will launch a Korean movie channel “tvN Movies” in Malaysia and “TV Blue,” a channel for providing [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The head of South Korea’s broadcasting watchdog body vowed to help expand exports of local TV dramas to Islamic countries to make up for restrictions imposed by China on entertainment content. “China accounts for a third of South Korea’s exports of broadcasting content, but this sectors is currently not [...]