HADONG, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Being around 4,000 kilometers north of the equator hasn’t stopped one South Korean paprika grower from succeeding at cultivating bananas, one of the most representative fruits of the tropics. The South Korean bananas hail from the paprika and cucumber farm of sixty-year-old Ha Dong-gyoon, a farmer based about 330 [...]
JEONJU, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The historic Jeonju Hanok Village has been visited by more than 10 million people in each of the past two years, setting a new record. The city of Jeonju revealed on March 13 that 11.09 million tourists had come to Jeonju Hanok Village last year. In 2016, the tourist [...]
WANDO, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The slow city of Cheongsan-do will host a special tourist event demonstrating the island’s indigenous burial rituals on April 18 from 10:00 AM, at the first course of the island’s slow walking route, as a part of its 2015 Cheongsando Slow Walking Festival programs. The burial, called ‘Chobun,’ is [...]