SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A skating rink will open at the Seoul Plaza this week, the Seoul city government said Wednesday. The rink, which will be open through Feb. 11, will operate from 10 a.m. through 9:30 p.m. on Sundays through Thursdays, and it will extend the operation hours to 11 p.m. on [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will bring about 3,000 books, bean bags and picnic mats out onto the lawn at Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall later this week to set up an “outdoor library” after the lifting of all social distancing rules, officials said Tuesday. The library will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A plaza named after Seoul’s Mapo Ward will be established half way around the world in Costa Rica, officials said Friday. Yoo Dong-gyun, head of the Mapo Ward office, and Costa Rican Ambassador to South Korea Alejandro Rodriguez Zamora discussed the creation of Mapo Plaza in San Jose earlier [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Even the intense heat could not stop trainees who flew in from around the world from participating in the 2018 World Youth Taekwondo Camp being held in South Korea since July 27. A total of 130 participants from 14 countries including Germany, Belgium, Singapore, China, India, and Hong Kong [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Plans to plant grasses at Seoul City Hall Plaza have been postponed amid high fine dust levels across the country. After being used an ice skating rink, dozens of workers were supposed to cover the plaza in front of City Hall with patches of grass. The plans, however, were canceled [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A statue of Italian priest Kim Ha-jong has been erected at Seoul Plaza in celebration of the UN’s International Migrants Day, and will stand until Friday to symbolize migrants. According to the South Korean representatives of the International Organization for Migration, the statute of Kim Ha-jong, who is famously known [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul Plaza, which fronts City Hall, will be transformed into a circus venue from today as it embarks on a 7-day circus event offering a series of performances every day during lunch time until May 30. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced yesterday that a variety of circus shows will [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The preparatory committee for the Korea Queer Culture Festival and Rainbow Action, an activist group for sexual minorities, proceeded with their 16th annual festival at Seoul Plaza for the first time in its history amid protests from conservative and Christian groups. At the opening ceremony, only some 150 organizers and activists [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A 2.5-meter-tall tree made from 5,000 PET bottles and waste wood, adorned with messages from Seoul children dreaming of a clean environment, was installed at Seoul Plaza on March 22. The sculpture was made by artist Kim Woo-jin as part of Seoul’s promotional events for the ICLEI World Congress 2015, which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul city is hosting an exhibition of a historical archive composed of 260 photographs, newspapers, magazines and other media selected to talk about the main historical events that took place around the site of Seoul Plaza over the past 70 years. The exhibition is to be held from February 12 to [...]