SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Actress Song Hye-kyo will return to the silver screen in her home country as an exorcist nun for the first time in 10 years, the film’s local distributor said Friday. Song has been cast in a new Korean film directed by Kwon Hyeok-jae, alongside co-stars Jeon Yeo-been, Lee Jin-wook [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A family court on Monday approved a divorce settlement for high-profile star couple Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki, allowing them to get legally divorced. The Seoul Family Court held a closed-door hearing over the divorce arrangement for the couple but did not provide details, in accordance of the wishes [...]
TAEBAEK, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangwon’s “Descendants of the Sun” Taebaek Film Set, where the mega-hit South Korean drama was shot, was bustling with visitors last weekend. It was the first weekend after Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo announced their divorce. A total of 675 people visited the set during the weekend, which was [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — It took less than four years for the top stars Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki to fall in love through a mega hit drama series, get married in a wildly publicized wedding ceremony and come to a surprising divorce that set off a whirlwind of rumors. The management agencies [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Top-profile Korean star couple Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki are taking legal steps to part ways, two years after their much-celebrated marriage, the stars’ management agencies said Thursday. A law firm representing the actor Song Joong-ki filed for court mediation for his divorce from the actress Song Hye-kyo with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Professor Seo Kyung-duk of Sungshin Women’s University and actress Song Hye-kyo have launched a new website called ‘History of Korea’. The website was opened in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement and the establishment of a provisional government in the Republic of Korea. It [...]
PAJU, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Since its opening a little more than three years ago, the Camp Greaves DMZ Experience Center has slowly but surely become a pit stop for tourists visiting the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. The Gyeonggi Tourism Organization and Paju City revealed that 23,116 tourists visited Camp Greaves [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao released on December 22 a list of the most searched keywords from January through November on its Daum portal in the categories of news, personalities and media. In news, “19th election”, “Park Geun-hye impeachment”, “Kim Joo-hyuk death”, “Pohang earthquake” and “cryptocurrency” were the most searched in order from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Descendants of the Sun” star Song Joong-ki has been chosen as the top television actor of the year in an annual poll released Thursday. Gallup Korea canvassed 1,700 people aged 13 or over across the country from Nov. 8 to 28 and Song took the top spot, gaining [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The most beautiful Korean woman would have the eyes of Kim Tae-hee, the nose of Han Ga-in and the lips of Song Hye-kyo according to 290 South Koreans. Pharmaceuticals company Hugel teamed up with members of university hospitals to survey 290 individuals, 72 of them medical professionals, and diclosed [...]