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  • Discover Seoul Pass BTS Edition pickup and on-site purchase started

    Discover Seoul Pass BTS Edition will be available for pickup and on-site purchase starting today. Discover Seoul Pass is an item optimized for individual foreign tourists who want to travel freely in July 2016 released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Tourism Organization and is a free pass to enjoy the city tour more conveniently and effectively according to various preferences of tourists. The “Discover Seoul Pass BTS Edition” consists of one Discover Seoul Pass with group photos of BTS, one BTS photo postcard, and one guide map, and all the benefits of the existing Seoul Pass benefits are provided except for the T-Money function. The special edition of the BTS will be released to inform the world +

  • Preorders of BTS’ new album surpass 2.6 million copies

    A new album from massively successful K-pop band BTS has surpassed 2.6 million copies in presales at home and abroad, the group’s management agency said Tuesday. Preorders became available on Wednesday, and in the first five days of the pre-order +

  • The first lineup of SBS Inkigayo Super Concert 2019

    The first lineup of SBS Inkigayo Super Concert 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships was unveiled, it was reported that BTS, MOMOLAND, IZ*ONE, N.Flying, and Nature will participate. The SBS Super Concert-2019 Gwangju FINA World Swimming Championships, which will be held +

  • Yeongdeungpo Yeouido Spring Flower Festival 2019 will take place from Apr. 5, 2019 to Apr. 11

    Yeongdeungpo Yeouido Spring Flower Festival, where visitors can enjoy various cultural and artistic performances and cherry blossoms, has been established as Korea’s representative spring festival. Yeongdeungpo-gu (Chae Hyun-il, head of the district office) announced on that the Yeouido Spring Flower +

  • Cherry blossoms have already begun to bloom in Jeju Island

    A welcome news came as many meteorologists forecast that spring flowers will bloom three to five days earlier than usual due to high average temperatures. Cherry blossoms have already begun to bloom in Jeju Island, which is located south of +

  • Seungri Scandal: What happens to Big Bang now?

    Once a member of one of the most popular boy bands in K-pop, disgraced singer steps away from the industry. Seungri has decided to retire while on top of his game, after becoming mired in a slew of serious accusations +

  • Discover Seoul Pass BTS Edition, Limited Release on March 15

    The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Tourism Organization (CEO Lee Jae-sung) announced that they will produce a special edition modeled after BTS, a tourism ambassador for Seoul, and will sell it on a reservation starting from the 15th. Discover +

  • BTS’ new album ‘MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA’ topped the bestseller list

    BTS’ new album ‘MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA’ topped the bestseller list in the CDs & Vinyl category just one day after it started preorder sales on March 13 (local time). Starting with LOVE YOURSELF 承 ‘Her’ in 2017, BTS +

  • Former Big Bang member Seungri and singer Jung Joon-young

    Former Big Bang member Seungri and singer Jung Joon-young will be present and investigated by the police on Wednesday. Yoo, the head of the winning business partner, will also attend the police. Seungri is suspected of being a sexual encounter +

  • Korea Cultural Heritage Administration recommend 6 tourist spots of the palace and royal tomb spring flower attractions

    The Palace Relics Headquarters of the Cultural Heritage Administration recommends the four great palaces, Jongmyo Shrine and the Spring Flowering Sites of the Royal Tomb of the Joseon Dynasty to enjoy the atmosphere of spring harmonized with traditional scenery along +






  • BTS and South Korean President Moon Jae-in

    BTS met South Korean President Moon Jae-in and first lady Kim Jung-sook during the band’s visit to Paris for a concert celebrating the friendship between Korea and France. The group posted pictures on Twitter of its members with Moon and his wife at the Korea-France Friendship Concert at theater Le +

  • Pink Muhly Grass in Full Bloom at Jamwon Hangang Park

    Pink muhly and another 25 species of perennial plants are in full bloom in “Grass Garden,” a garden of about 6,000 ㎡ which was built in Jamwon Hangang Park, Seoul. Hangang River’s “Grass Garden” is an unusual garden made up of various colors of grass, different from the usual flower +

  • BTS will enlist for military service

    South Korea’s culture minister put an end to the debate surrounding whether BTS members would be exempted from military service during a parliamentary audit Wednesday. “All of the BTS members say they will definitely enlist for military service,” said Do Jong-hwan who heads the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and +

  • BTS hit London’s O2 Area

    About 20,000 European fans of different skin colors, nationalities and ages enthusiastically sang the Korean-language lyrics of a BTS song when the massively popular K-pop boy band hit London’s O2 Area on Wednesday (local time). Many top global stars such as Coldplay, Madonna, Beyonce, Adele and Ed Sheeran have performed +

  • Fantastic view of autumnal and frost at the top of Deogyusan Mountain

    The first ‘Sanggodae’ was formed in the autumn of the year at the top of Deogyusan Mountain in Jeonbuk National Park. Today, the National Park Service of Deogyusan Mountain in North Jeolla-do Province said that a high-altitude area was formed on a branch near the peak of the national park +

  • Gangcheon Island Ginkgo Tree Road – Korea Autumn destination

    I went on a trip to Ginkgo Tree Road in Gangcheon Island, Yeoju with my niece, who is a college student want to grab autumn a little bit longer. It is called the “island”, but the driveway has been built on both sides of the bridge, and due to the +

  • MICHELIN Guide reveals the third Bib Gourmand selection for Seoul

    MICHELIN Guide Seoul has announced the new Bib Gourmand selection, ahead of the release of the MICHELIN Guide Seoul 2019 next week. In 2019, the Bib Gourmand restaurant has retained the rest of its restaurants, except for two of the 48 introduced in the 2018 edition, including 4 “The Plate” +

  • The biggest boy band in the world, BTS as ‘Next Generation Leaders’

    Leaving footsteps all around the word, BTS has been honored by Time magazine as “Next Generation Leaders.” On Thursday, Time shared a lengthy article shedding light on the boy band’s ongoing global success with the headline “How BTS is taking over the world.” It also unveiled its latest cover with +

  • Hangeul is becoming more popular around the world

    The venue of the 2019 Paris Fashion Week “Gucci” show, which ended recently in Paris, waves with a picket with Hangeul(Korean letter) on it. More than 500 local fans gathered to watch “EXO” member Kai (Kim Jong-in) at a fashion show. Adrian Russo (22), who came from Lille, northern France, +

  • The Korean government will ease the visa requirement for foreign spouses

    A foreigner applying for a spousal visa in South Korea will have a higher chance if the Korean spouse learns his or her native language, the Ministry of Justice said Monday. The ministry has eased the assessment criteria for a foreigner’s spousal visa application if his or her Korean partner +

  • BTS will be the youngest recipients of Korean government’s Order of Cultural Merit

    The Korean government has decided to award an Order Of Cultural Merit to members of the group BTS, which has emerged as a “world star.” According to a statement made on October 8 by a spokesperson for Cheong Wa Dae (the ‘Blue House’), South Korean President Moon Jae In awarded +

  • Hongcheon Ginkgo Forest – Autumn destination that can only be visited in October

    A few years ago there was a must-see place every October. When the month of October begins, the touch and feel of the whole body are strained to select the “best day.” If you want to enjoy the charm of the place, which is the best place to enjoy autumn, +