TAEBAEK, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual snow festival in Taebaek, a mountainous city in Gangwon Province, is back after a three-year absence, opening with a snow sculpture competition for university students. The snow sculpture competition, one of the Taebaeksan Mountain Snow Festival’s main events, will begin with an orientation session on Saturday. A [...]
TAEBAEK, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Last Wednesday, a woman in her 40s visited a community center in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, leaving behind a large contribution for those in need. The woman remained anonymous, giving away 3 million won (US$2,700). Last December, another anonymous donor gave 100 kilograms of rice cakes to those in need. [...]
TAEBAEK, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A coal mining town is one of the facilities at the Taebaek Activity Park in Gangwon Province, which was opened in 2006 with an investment of 13 billion won (US$11.5 million) for the project. The Taebaek Activity Park consists of a field trip center and mining town. The field trip [...]
TAEBAEK, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Jangseong-dong in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, once a bustling mining town now left abandoned, is returning as a testbed for urban regeneration. Various regeneration projects are being prepared at the old town to revive the local economy that once depended on the coal industry. Taebaek city officials flew out of [...]
TAEBAEK, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The 26th Mount Taebaek Snow Festival has been a surprising success despite a dry winter with little precipitation. The festival’s organizing committee announced on Saturday that more than 600,000 people had visited the festival as of last Friday. The festival attracted 200,000 visitors by January 20, reaching as many [...]
TAEBAEK, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Taebaek in Gangwon Province, also known as ‘Winter City,’ proudly holds a snow festival every year. This year marks the 26th iteration of the event, and the city is planning to exhibit ice sculptures of 12 great figures from mythology. There will be six ice sculptures [...]
TAEBAEK, SOUTH KOREA, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – An annual rapeseed flower festival in Taebaek has been cancelled amid fears over flower samples that tested positive for living modified organisms. Festival authorities announced yesterday the cancellation of this year’s local flower festival after discovering genetically modified flowers. Marking its sixth year, Taebaek’s rapeseed flower festival was [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The 24th Taebaek Snow Festival is set to kick off on Friday at Taebaeksan (Mount Taebaek) National Park. Although the area has seen less snow than usual in recent years, the park is most famous during the snowy season, welcoming half of its annual visitors during the [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Taebaek city has seen a dramatic increase in tourists since the official opening of a filming site of “Descendants of the Sun,” city officials said Monday. Tourists have visited the remote city in Gangwon Province to check out the filming site of KBS 2TV’s sensationally popular series [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – “This is a city that was built on our sacrifices, and we won’t let poverty become the legacy for our children,” cried 53-year-old Bae Jeong-deok, reading a letter to the South Korean president during a protest held in Taebaek on Thursday. Taebaek is a city in Gangwon Province on [...]