JEONJU, South Korea, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors said Thursday they have indicted former President Moon Jae-in over charges of bribery in connection with allegations of facilitating the employment of his former son-in-law at an airline. Moon, who served as president from 2017 to 2022, was indicted for corruption, while former lawmaker Lee Sang-jik, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – This June, the skies over Yeouido in Seoul will be graced by a unique tethered helium balloon attraction, aptly named “Seoul’s Moon.” Shaped like a full moon, the balloon will offer passengers breathtaking night-time views from up to 150 meters above ground. The Seoul Metropolitan Government unveiled the design and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned lunar orbiter Danuri has released a comprehensive photographic map of the moon to mark the one-year anniversary of its mission, the science ministry said Tuesday. The mosaic map, compiled from polarized camera views captured over the past 250 days, encompasses both the front and back of [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent photos of the moon’s far side during its mission to collect selenographic data, the science ministry said Wednesday. Danuri, which is rotating around the moon 100 kilometers above the surface, took pictures of the Tsiolkovskiy crater on March 22 and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has successfully entered the orbit of the moon earlier than planned, the science ministry said Wednesday. Danuri, also known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, was captured by the moon’s gravity on Tuesday and began rotation, according to the Ministry of Science and [...]
Hong Kong, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The full moon brings a layer of magic and mystery that fascinates mankind. VistaJet, the first and only global business aviation company, presents its top five unique full moon experiences not to be missed in 2022. There are numerous full moon rituals across different cultures, with many celebrating the joy of family [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry unveiled Thursday its plan to observe and map the moon’s surface in 2023 in its first lunar orbiter mission. The spacecraft, set to be launched in August next year on U.S. commercial space firm SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, aims to reach lunar orbit toward the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is on track for its first lunar mission, with its first launch of a lunar orbiter slated for the second half of 2022, the country’s space research institute said Sunday, after the country’s lunar project suffered multiple delays. South Korea, a relative latecomer to the global space [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push back the development date of its lunar orbiter by less than two years to July 2022 and increase the size of the probe to enhance the probe’s capabilities and reflect the requests of local scientists, the science ministry said Tuesday. The delay comes amid the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Three BTS songs will hit the playlist of the American space agency’s next journey to the moon as the agency is planning to make another lunar landing by 2024, the agency’s SNS feeds have shown. In a Twitter feed Tuesday, the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and [...]