SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte ON, an online shopping website running by the retail arm of Lotte Group, said Wednesday it will release an upcycled replica of the rubber duck that was put up for exhibition in Seokchon Lake in Seoul’s Songpa Ward in October. This project aims to recycle the rubber duck made with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s giant yellow rubber duck is back in South Korea for the first time in eight years, with organizers saying it is meant to uplift the mood of the people amid the pandemic. The 18-meter-tall inflatable plastic duck will be installed over the waters of Seokchon [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A giant yellow rubber duck is returning to Seoul’s Seokchon Lake eight years after its first visit. Lotte Property & Development (P&D), the operator of South Korea’s tallest skyscraper, Lotte World Tower, is joining hands with Seoul’s Songpa District to host the Rubber Duck Project Seoul 2022 from Sept. [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – An eco-friendly rubber duck that looks exactly like the one which was exhibited at Seokchon Lake in Seoul, gaining much popularity as an icon of “healing” last fall, is being displayed in downtown Seoul. The Citizens’ Movement for Environmental Justice, a civil advocacy group, announced that it would display the [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — After a successful exhibition of the yellow rubber duck in Korea, 1600 paper-mache pandas have finally arrived in Korea, and will be exhibited around the nation until July. On May 25, Buddha’s Birthday, the pandas was installed at Gangnam Station’s M Stage. The 1600 bears have been traveling around the [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A famous rubber duck gained immense popularity in Korea between October and November 2014, but what happened to the giant pile of yellow polyvinyl that was nothing more than industrial waste? Lotte Department Store brought new life to the waste by ‘upcycling‘ the polyvinyl, in collaboration with design group [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A gigantic rubber duck plans to swim on Seokchon Lake in Seoul. A renowned Dutch installment artist Florentijn Hofman announced that the 54-foot-tall duck weighing one ton is going to stay in Seoul for a month from October 14 to November 14. He highlighted that the rubber duck visited [...]