SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Bereaved families of the Itaewon crowd crush victims held a joint memorial service for their loved ones Sunday, the first Lunar New Year since the deadly tragedy in the Seoul neighborhood last year. Some 80 family members and relatives of the victims who died in the Oct. 29 crowd [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans on Friday began heading to their hometowns for family reunions or taking trips on the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday, as the nation celebrates its first such holiday without social distancing restrictions since the outbreak of COVID-19 three years ago. This year’s extended Lunar New [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway and bus services in Seoul will be extended to run until 2 a.m. during the Lunar New Year holiday later this month, the Seoul metropolitan government said Sunday. According to the city’s transportation plans, trains on Subway Line 1 through Line 9 across the capital will be operated [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s food industry is releasing a string of gift sets using eco-friendly packaging ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Dongwon F&B Co. released a gift set packaged in an eco-friendly material, Paper Press. It is 100 percent made of paper. A tray made of this material has [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean athletes and officials in Beijing for the upcoming Winter Games celebrated the Lunar New Year on Tuesday in an understated event at their Olympic village. Though Jan. 1 on the Lunar Calendar is one of South Korea’s biggest holidays, the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) only [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a record surge of COVID-19, the annual exodus for the Lunar New Year holiday began Friday, as South Koreans head to their hometowns for family reunions and take trips during the extended holiday. This year’s three-day holiday runs from Monday to Wednesday and it is extended by an [...]
JEJU, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 200,000 people are expected to travel to Jeju Island during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday despite growing concerns over the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, according to travel industry officials Tuesday. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, the number of visitors to the resort island [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Away from home amid the new coronavirus pandemic, South Korean service members on missions overseas held diverse cultural events, some with local people, to mark the Lunar New Year holiday. This year’s Lunar New Year’s Day, one of the country’s biggest holidays, falls on Friday, and the four-day holiday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — For many North Korean defectors in South Korea, Lunar New Year has been an occasion to get together near the border and perform joint ancestral rites while looking into the north. This year, the coronavirus pandemic has dashed those plans, as the government has extended a ban on private [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national cemeteries began restricting visits Thursday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus during the Lunar New Year’s Day holiday, the veterans affairs ministry said. Seol, or Lunar New Year’s Day, is one of the country’s biggest traditional holidays during which families hold rituals to thank [...]