WANJU, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of Animal Science on Wednesday held an annual memorial ceremony to honor animals sacrificed in the name of developing the livestock industry. Every year, the agency conducts a memorial ceremony to console the spirits of animals that have been sacrificed during research and trials. The memorial [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Grand Park, one of the biggest parks in the Seoul metropolitan area, said Monday that it will hold a memorial ceremony for deceased animals for the 27th time on Nov. 1. This year, European brown bear ‘Pogeuni,’ Siberian tiger ‘Cheongi,’ and leopard ‘Habeomi’ passed away at the park. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Grand Park held its 26th Animal Memorial Ceremony for the animals that lived and passed away at the zoo. The memorial ceremony first began in 1995 to honor the animals that lived at the old Changgyeongwon Zoo (1909 to 1983) in Seoul and the Seoul Grand Park Zoo [...]
OSAN, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – An annual memorial ceremony was held Sunday to honor the American soldiers killed in the U.N. forces’ first ground battle during the 1950-53 Korean War, followed by the opening of a new peace park in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the war. The 540-strong U.S. [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It was on a fine afternoon on November 23, 2010, when North Korean artillery batteries and rocket launchers opened fire on Yeonpyeongdo, a group of South Korean islands located some 80 kilometers west of Incheon. The bombardment lasted approximately an hour, from 2:34 to 3:41 p.m., with Korea returning [...]
CHUNGJU, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – An event to pay tribute to the animals used in medical experiments was held in front of the animal monument at the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation. The animal monument is a two-meter-high sculpture of a person holding a laboratory animal like a mother holds a [...]