PARIS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — After flying 14 hours to Paris, the South Korean table tennis team for the upcoming Olympics has found a home away from home in the French capital. The players have been training in South Paris Arena 4, their competition venue, since Sunday. And when they first walked into the [...]
PARIS, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — After spending the past several days inside a Team Korea bubble south of Paris, South Korean swimming medal hopefuls Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo trained in the French capital for the first time Monday ahead of the Olympic Games. It finally made them feel like the big competition was [...]
PARIS, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Running for a seat on an International Olympic Committee (IOC) body dedicated to representing athletes’ voices, South Korean golfer Park In-bee has arrived in Paris to launch her election campaign in earnest. The LPGA Hall of Famer landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport on Monday night, decked out in a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold an array of cultural events, including contemporary dance, ballet and traditional crafts, in Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, to introduce Korean art to a wider audience. The country’s national art groups and institutions will perform and hold exhibitions in various locations across [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With two reigning world champions leading the way, the South Korean judo team for the Paris Olympics traveled to the French capital Thursday. South Korea was shut out of gold medals in judo at each of the past two Summer Olympics, but coaches and athletes this year believe the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Late drawing artist Kim Jung-gi’s works will go on display in Paris, the Korean Cultural Center in France has said, in remembrance of his innate ability for live drawing and a special bond with the country. In a recent post, the center said a special retrospective, “Infinite Lines,” looking [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Jugkook of K-pop sensation BTS will perform at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in Paris. According to the homepage of the MTV EMAs on Tuesday (local time), the South Korean singer is among the nominees chosen to perform at the awards ceremony on Nov. 5. Jungkook has [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group said Tuesday it has opened three new Paris Baguette bakery stores in France’s capital city of Paris this year, as it eyes expansion in the European country. The company said it opened two new stores in the business area of La [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — BTS member V has visited Paris in an apparent move to start his individual activities after the K-pop boyband announced a plan to take a collective break. According to industry sources Monday, V, or also known as Kim Tae-hyung, is on a trip to France for a fashion show [...]
Paris, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – OnePlan, the innovative London-based startup, has been named a partner to the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, which will use OnePlan’s Venue Twin and GIS Mapping software for more efficiency and collaboration. This is the first time an Olympic and Paralympic Games has chosen a partner for GIS [...]