SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ending an over-two-month closure due to the coronavirus outbreaks, South Korea will conditionally reopen state-run museums and libraries starting next week, the government said Friday. Starting Wednesday, 24 key national history and art museums, as well as libraries, across the country will reopen their doors to the public under [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run art and history museums, libraries and national theaters will continue to remain closed despite a recent drop in new COVID-19 cases, the culture ministry said Monday. A day earlier, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun announced the government will partly soften its social distancing guidelines, conditionally allowing churches, [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The culture ministry said Monday that it will extend the closure of major state-run art and history museums, libraries and theaters by another two weeks amid the country’s continued social distancing drive to contain COVID-19. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said 32 state-run culture and art facilities [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A special virtual reality video on the website of the National Museum of Korea lets visitors tour the museum’s major exhibitions on a smartphone in the safety of their homes. The national museum adopted the virtual tour service, supported by U.S.-based 3D technology platform Matterport, earlier this month after [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday decided to extend the closure of major state-run art and history museums as well as public libraries and theaters by two more weeks amid continuing coronavirus outbreaks. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said 36 state-run museums, libraries and theaters across the country will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — State-run history and art museums as well as libraries will temporarily close their doors starting this week to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, the culture ministry said Monday. A total of 24 such institutes have begun or will begin to suspend their businesses as of Monday, including [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — State-run museums and art museums nationwide will present a troupe performance and other cultural activities to the public around the traditional holiday starting this week, the culture ministry said Friday. The Lunar New Year holiday, known as “Seol,” is one of the two major traditional Korean holidays and falls [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuseok is the traditional Korean autumn harvest celebration, similar to Thanksgiving in the United States. Many Koreans visit their hometowns for ancestral rituals and spend time with their families during the holiday. But if you’re planning to spend the Chuseok holiday in Seoul, visiting royal palaces and tombs, national [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of art galleries have been staying open late for those who want to enjoy a so-called “mucation,” a portmanteau of the words ‘music’ and ‘vacation’. Art museums, which typically maintain an indoor temperature in the low 20°C range due to the preservation and management of artwork, offer [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of museums, including art museums, in South Korea will increase by 16 percent over the next five years under a government proposal to make representative cultural infrastructure more accessible to the public, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Monday. The ministry unveiled a medium and [...]