SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeongbok Palace, a royal palace in Seoul, will offer a special guided tour of its marquee pavilion overlooking a beautiful pond, starting next month, cultural authorities said Tuesday. The Cultural Heritage Administration’s department that preserves and manages royal palaces and tombs said the guided tour of Gyeonghoeru inside the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Italian luxury brand Gucci will hold a fashion show at a royal place in Seoul in May, about six months after the event was canceled due to the Itaewon crowd crush, the South Korean cultural heritage authority said Tuesday. According to the Cultural Heritage Administration, a department of its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Luxury fashion brand Gucci will hold a fashion show at a royal place in Seoul as planned in November, the company announced Thursday, more than a week after the event was known to have been canceled following controversy over improper use of another historical site in the capital. “We [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Luxury fashion brand Gucci has called off a fashion show scheduled to take place at a royal place in Seoul after criticism arose over fashion magazine photos taken at the former presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae, cultural heritage officials said Monday. Gucchi had planned to hold the Gucci [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — On a sunny autumn afternoon, hundreds of traditional Korean lanterns with silk shades of all different colors fluttered gently in the breeze at a courtyard of the Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul. Visitors wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus busily took photos of themselves against the [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Nighttime tours of Changdeok Palace from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) will kick off next week in a scaled-down manner amid the new coronavirus pandemic, the cultural heritage agency said Thursday. The 100-minute nocturnal tour of the royal palace will run from April 29 through June 20, four times a [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A popular nighttime tour of Gyeongbok Palace will kick off next month in a scaled-down manner amid the new coronavirus pandemic, the cultural heritage agency said Saturday. The nocturnal tour of the main royal palace of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in central Seoul will run from April 1 through [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The spectacular royal guard mounting ceremony at Deoksu Palace, one of the major traditional tourist attractions in Seoul, resumed Tuesday after nearly nine months of suspension due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the city government of Seoul said. The changing of the guard ceremony is an elaborate tourist event [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A monthlong heritage festival that explores South Korea’s royal palaces and culture will kick off this weekend, with some of this year’s events scheduled to be held online amid the new coronavirus, officials said Friday. The sixth Royal Culture Festival will take place at Gyeongbok, Changdeok, Deoksu and Changgyeong [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nighttime tours of Changdeok Palace, one of the royal palaces of the Joseon Dynasty in central Seoul, will start later this week, cultural heritage authorities said Tuesday. The special night tours of Changdeok Palace in Jongno Ward will kick off Saturday and go through Oct. 25, every Thursday to [...]