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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Visits Korea
18 hours 19 min ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- President Park Geun-hye met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, the latest in a series of meetings with chiefs of global information technology giants aimed at seeking advice for her "creative economy"...

Busan City Selects the top 27 Bakeries in the City
19 hours 56 min ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Busan City has announced 27 outstanding local bakeries from among 42 entries for their “Certification of Local Outstanding Bakeries Project”. This project aims to support and promote local bakeries in Busan.

The designated bakeries will receive a certificate and signboard, and they will be presented at the “Taste of Busan” special promotional booth at the Busan International Food Expo, which will be held at BEXCO from October 10-13. To promote local...

Busan to Expand Child Care Services
2 days 6 hours ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Busan city has decided to expand the children care service to decrease the parenting burden of double-income families and to increase jobs of the elderly. 

The children care service is conducted for working couples who have...

City Runs Program to Neutralize Stray Cats
4 days 21 hours ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- The city of Busan will roll out a program to neutralize stray cats in the downtown area. 

The city of Busan and Haeundae-gu will receive support for the neutralization treatment, drug medicine, and other voluntary activities as well as the animal protection center for cats living around the Buheung Park and neighboring apartment in Haeundae from tomorrow for two days. 

This is the 4th operation initiated by the Children's park in July last...

Korea Travel: Bijindo Island - Well Worth the Visit
1 week 2 days ago

TONGYEONG, South Korea -- Most people often find themselves in the situation where they really have the need to get away for a weekend, but don’t necessarily have the budget for it.

Bijin-do, a.k.a. Bijin...

BIFF Looking For Volunteers
1 week 6 days ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- The Busan International Film Festival is looking for volunteers for this year's festival, held the third to the twelfth of October. Volunteers can apply through the BIFF website until the seventeenth. 

Candidates who pass the first document screening will be announced through the website (Korean only) on the twenty-sixth. Successful candidates will be announced after interviews on the...

Art Show Busan Held at BEXCO This Weekend
1 week 6 days ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- "Art Show Busan", the festival of modern art, will be held until the tenth in the second BEXCO building in Busan. 

The organizing committee of Art Show Busan hosted the opening ceremony, attended by about one-hundred celebrities in the art world at 3 pm, Wednesday and started the final preparations for the festival. 

In this festival, 2,500 various art works including paintings, sculptures, installation art and media art of 170 artists...

2013 Landscape and Garden Show at Bexco this Week
2 weeks 1 day ago

 


BUSAN, South Korea -- The 2013 Landscape and Garden Show Busan offering a chance to see the latest trends in gardening will be held from the fifth to the eighth at Bexco. 

Eighty leading companies in the domestic landscape industry will take part. The event is hosted by Busan city, KNN, Busan Ilbo and Kookje Daily News. 

The Busan Landscape Forum will also be held. The forum will discuss the UN Memorial Park. The joint graduate work exhibition of...

See Superstars Rain and Super Junior in 3-D concerts
2 weeks 2 days ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- It has become possible to see the live performances of Hallyu stars Rain, Super Junior, and Infinite in 3-D. An exclusive K-pop theater (34 seats) has opened on the B1 floor of BIFF Hill, Busan Cinema Center. 

The theater will show live performances by Korea’s idol singers and groups in 3-D format whereby the audiences will use three-dimensional eyeglasses so that they can feel like they are actually at the concert.

The live performances include Hallyu...

Feature: The Best Date Spots in Busan
2 weeks 6 days ago

BUSAN, South Korea -- Summer has descended on Korea, and, as usual, it brings along the annual typhoon of frantic libidos brainwashing young folk to look awkwardly down at the floor while they ask each other out on dates. So starts the of hordes of hormones biking in Hwamyeong, bodies...

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