SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean golf legend Pak Se-ri will team up with a global investment firm to host a newly named tournament on the LPGA Tour, officials have announced. The LPGA Tour announced Tuesday (U.S. time) that Pak and the Silicon Valley-based investment company Fir Hills will stage the Fir Hills [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The American city of Los Angeles designated “Squid Game Day” in recognition of the global mega-hit Korean drama’s impact on American popular culture. John Lee, a Korean American member of the Los Angeles City Council, announced that the council passed a resolution last week designated Sept. 17 as Squid [...]
LOS ANGELES, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A 5K Run and a ‘Festa di Piazza’, with ‘Italian food’, music, entertainment, to celebrate the Festa della Repubblica, Italy’s National Day. This is the event that the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, after the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, has finally managed to organize, gathering [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean volunteer organization has offered free coronavirus tests in Koreatown, Los Angeles on Monday (local time) to promote South Korean medical products. The tests took place in front of Wilshire Park Place, where test kits, walk-through clinics and mobile quarantine machines from South Korea were employed. The event [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s largest discount hypermarket chain by sales, said Friday it will launch the first outlet of its premium grocery store in Los Angeles next year, the latest in a series of moves to expand its presence abroad. E-Mart has signed a 10-year contract to lease three [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will host a Korean food and beverage trade show in the United States to boost local firms’ export opportunities in the major market, the government said Tuesday. About 40 Korean food exporters and 100 buyers from the U.S., Canada and Latin America will attend the “K-Food Fair” [...]
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, the Xehar team announces the Xehar Fashion Fairies Conference, which takes place over three days in Los Angeles, January 19th-21st. The conference gathers aspiring fashionistas to celebrate self love, natural beauty, and learn what it takes inspire women to be more confident. With powerful keynotes, exciting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Show-G Group, a comedy collective composed of Park Sung Ho, Kim Won Hyo, Jeong Bum Gyeun and Lee Jong Hoon put on a successful show of slapstick comedy, singing, dance and magic before a crowd of 1,200 at New Jersey’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on September 9. Included among the [...]
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — KCON, a global Korean pop music and culture convention, wrapped up its Los Angeles event Sunday, bringing together tens of thousands of fans of cutting-edge South Korean musicians, fashion and other Korean-related cultural content. A crowd of 80,000 gathered at the three-day KCON LA 2017 held from Friday [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition dedicated to the Korean alphabet, hangeul, will open in Los Angeles to mark the 620th anniversary of its creator King Sejong’s birth, the National Hangeul Museum said Tuesday. “Sounds x Hangeul, Variation of the Korean Alphabet” will run from May 10-June 2 at the Korean Cultural [...]