SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Cultural heritage-inspired museum merchandise, known as “muds” – a portmanteau of “museum” and “goods” – has achieved record-breaking sales exceeding 20 billion won for the first time, the National Museum Foundation of Korea announced on February 13. The foundation reported that muds sales reached approximately 21.28 billion won in 2024, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has announced the installation of a new cutting-edge device at an upcoming exhibition held at the National Museum of Korea. This device incorporates organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based exhibition technology and will be part of a trial. The device will be placed at [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Department Store said Monda it will open a pop-up store showcasing a variety of merchandise from the National Museum of Korea. The pop-up store will be located in one of the basement levels of the department store’s Myeongdong branch. It will offer approximately 200 different kinds of merchandise [...]
JINJU, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A museum in the southeastern city of Jinju is gaining popularity among military enthusiasts after videos posted on YouTube received a positive response. The Jinju National Museum specializes in the history of Japan’s Invasion of Korea (1592-1598) and has been running a YouTube series called “Firepower Joseon” for two [...]
IMSIL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Cheese History Museum” has opened in Imsil County, the birthplace of South Korean cheese located in the southwest of the country, the local government said on Monday. Covering a total area of 1,683 square meters, the museum houses a hall, an exhibition hall, a cheese-making and fermentation workshop, [...]
BUSAN, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Museum of Art in Busan has announced that it will host a participatory exhibition in the Children’s Gallery, featuring a collaboration between an artist and children from Thursday until Dec. 17. The exhibition will display 12 new artworks by the artist Kim Hong-seok and will be held [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Tuesday it will expand collaborations with major galleries and museums abroad to promote major Korean artworks in the global market. The MMCA said it will join hands with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to present over 100 artworks by Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The War Memorial of Korea, located just across the street from the new presidential office in Seoul’s Yongsan Ward, is garnering attention once again. According to the museum’s statistics, the number of visitors stood at 81,989 during the period from May 1 to 27, up 119 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday opened a Seoul museum memorializing its provisional government at the forefront of the country’s independence fight against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. The launch of the National Memorial of the Korean Provisional Government coincided with the 103rd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement, a watershed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Tuesday it has chosen a site in Seoul’s Jongno Ward to build a museum for the donated artworks of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee. The 9,787-square-meter plot in Songhyeon-dong was chosen over a site in Yongsan Ward after deliberation by a committee handling Lee’s art donations [...]