SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A rare sight of a wildcat, the only small wild member of the cat family on the Korean peninsula, and a badger, the top-level omnivorous predator walking together, was caught by an unmanned camera installed at a national park. To commemorate the Chuseok holiday, the Korea National Park Service unveiled [...]
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, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A string of eye-catching abnormal weather and climate change-related artistic photos and videos will be unveiled through a public contest. The online voting for the 40th annual weather and climate photo and video contest organized by the Korea Meteorological Administration will be carried out by March 12. Those wishing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent back photos of Earth and the moon after reaching the moon’s orbit last month, the state space research center said Tuesday. The orbiter performed three rounds of lunar orbit insertion (LOI) maneuvers from Dec. 17 to lower its speed and commit [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization, a government tourism promotional agency, has announced the winners of the 2022 Korea Tourism Competition. This year’s competition, under the slogan of “Travel Again,” took place from July 4 to August 19. The competition included two categories — digital cameras and smartphones — with a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Cheong Wa Dae, the former presidential office in Seoul that is now opened to the public, has turned into a hotspot for fashion photos after the Cultural Heritage Administration joined hands with Vogue Korea for the “Visit Cultural Heritage” campaign. The fashion magazine unveiled a pictorial that consists of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is releasing photos of the country’s easternmost islets of Dokdo from all four seasons taken over the past two years to the public for free. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday that 112 photos of Dokdo’s four seasons can be downloaded for free [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries hosted the 15th Ocean Art Photography Awards on Thursday. Held between April and July, the contest handed out awards to 43 pieces out of 3,114 applications. The Grand Prize went to Kang Tae-ok’s ‘Save the Seagulls’. Kang’s work captured a seagull flying with [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has unveiled dozens of long-kept photos of the Korean War, providing a rare glimpse into devastation, plight and even the resilience people demonstrated with seemingly little hope on the horizon. Yonhap News Agency obtained the 70 black-and-white still images taken by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Corporation announced Monday the winners of its second Lotte World Tower-themed photography contest. The building is a 123-story, 555-meter high skyscraper that is currently the tallest building in the country, and the fifth tallest in the world. First prize went to Kim Seung-rae for his Lotte World Tower [...]