SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Earlier this month, South Korean poet Choi Young-mi caused a storm after publicly posting a plea on her Facebook to ‘five-star hotels, preferably with a swimming pool’ to let her stay for free for a year, while offering in exchange to become an honorary ambassador to promote the hotel. [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Media art will light up the facade of a giant building in central Seoul next month in a cultural project to celebrate the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the art project is to send a message that global [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea opened a Korean food information center to showcase Korean cuisine and food culture and promote culinary tourism among foreign travelers, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Monday. The “K-Style Hub” opened in the previous headquarters of the state-run Korea Tourism Organization in downtown Seoul. The KTO relocated to Wonju, [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is ramping up support for the travel industry by enhancing its tourism infrastructure and tightening regulations on low-quality package programs to help shore up its slowing economy, officials and experts said Monday. Helped by the popularity of Korean pop culture, the tourism industry has emerged as a prospective [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) - A standard contract designed to protect the rights and interests of movie screen writers has been developed with cooperation from the government, promising positive changes in the advancement of writers’ rights. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism revised the standard contract drafted by the Korean Film Commission in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A technology to realize Korean cultural properties in virtual space has been developed by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. With floor plans of cultural asset buildings and three dimensional scan data, the ministry digitalized the traditional building materials of the properties. Considering the fact that existing technology [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism jointly proposed the revision of the “midnight shutdown scheme,” which prevents children aged 16 or under from playing computer games from midnight through 6 am. The revised plan is expected to allow parents to decide [...]