Thousands of people in the South Korean capital on Friday (November 2) cooked up a 40-ton feast of traditional spicy cabbage known as kimchi, at a charity event for the city’s poor. Sporting red hats and pink gloves, more than 2,000 people gathered around long tables set up in Seoul City Hall Square to make the strong smelling dish of fermented cabbage, spice paste, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce. Organizers said 3,000 people will make kimchi for a Guiness World Record on Sunday (November 4) and they are aiming to make a total 165 tonnes of kimchi for three days to distribute to the poor in Seoul. Per capita consumption of Kimchi in South Korea is 36.1kg per year, according +
BTS became the first Korean act to accrue over a billion streams on Apple Music. The seven-member act made history on Apple’s music streaming site by becoming the first Korean act to be streamed over a billion times. The band’s +
More celebrities are coming to Asia’s biggest festival, 2018 Asia Artist Awards. Recently, Sunmi was announced to attend the 2018 Asia Artist Awards (Chairman Park Jun-chul, 2018 Asia Artist Awards, ‘2018 AAA’) at Incheon Namdong Gymnasium on November 28th. Get +
The “2018 AAA” is a two-way operating between the Red Carpet Event and the main awards ceremony. The red carpet event will be attended by all 28 actors and 26 singers who will participate in the 2018 Asia Artist Awards, +
The freelance photographer who takes candid photos of celebrity is called paparazzi. These days, however, a Korean-style paparazzi photographer who looks like them and doesn’t seem to be is rising in Korea. Their modality is like paparazzi in terms of +
The 2018 Melon Music Awards celebrated its 10th anniversary this year and the award ceremony will take place at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on December 1. Also, although no official lineup has been made public yet, speculations have been +
When BTS debuted in 2013, the band members identified Big Bang as their role models. Now the band that started from scratch as a team of passionate rookies has grown into the most successful K-pop act to date, and it’s +
An official teaser video of the “2018 Asia Artist Awards” has released. The 2018 AAA, which will be held on November 28, is the world’s first singer and actor awards ceremony. The ‘2018 AAA’, which marks its third anniversary in +
Twice’s Halloween fan event at Yonsei University’s outdoor concert arena on Sunday was a success, to say the least. Photos of the event have been popping up on Twitter, showing Twice singing and dancing in Halloween costumes. The al fresco +
On the 10th anniversary of the Seoul Lantern Festival 2018, a 17-day festival will take place at Cheonggyecheon Stream (1.2km between Cheonggye Plaza and Supyo Bridge). The Seoul Lantern Festival 2018 will feature the Cheonggyecheon area in Seoul under the +
Spring is here, and K-pop music will be one of the pursuits to relish in the newly warmed weather. If March saw top boy bands such as Wanna One and TVXQ as well as rising stars Monsta X and Stray Kids making their mark on charts, the top girl bands +
K-pop group WINNER on Thursday soared to No. 1 on most major music streaming charts with its new lead track off “EVERYD4Y,” the group’s new album released a day ago. “Everyday,” the title song from the group’s second studio record, conquered real-time charts of seven streaming services, including Melon, Genie, +
Tulip is a flower that is not easy to see in Korea. The national flower of Netherlands and Turkey, tulips, are known to originate in southeastern Europe and Central Asia. Flowers such as forsythia, azaleas, cherry blossoms and plum blossoms all over the country but tulips are different. It was +
The ‘Seokchonhosu Lake Cherry Blossom Festival 2018’ is finally open tomorrow(5th April 2018). When you visit and explore Seokchonhosu Lake during the festival period, you can see 1,000 king cherry blossom trees bursting with pink blooms along the Seokchonhosu 2.54km. Last year, about 8.7 million people visited Seokchonhosu lake and +
Wanna One is a special DJ for a day in SBS MTV ‘The Show’ and gets people’s attention. SBS MTV ‘The Show – The Radio Show’, which is broadcasted on the 3rd April, will be featured as a special DJ by hottest KPOP idol Wanna One by the intense performance +
City of Jinhae, which is famous for cherry blossoms, became the home of Korean Navy since the construction of the port facilities in 1910. Various facilities are open to the general public for sightseeing. In the center of the city, there is the park of Jehwangsan Mountain, and there is +
Nami Island has a slightly lower temperature than the metropolitan area, so the cherry blossom season is a little late. It is difficult to predict the exact flowering time and full bloom season due to the influence of the weather every year, but you can see it from mid April +
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju attended a concert put on by South Korean performers at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, Sunday. South Korean entertainers performed in the North’s capital for the first time in 13 years, presenting a wide variety of South Korean music to +
People always create new trend and follow the new trend that talked among people. You have seen a lot of the school uniforms in your favorite Korean dramas. What if you can actually do that in Korea? Yes, you can do that. In fact, Korean School uniforms are much more fashionable +
SECHSKIES opening fan festival in commemoration of his 21st anniversary. SECHSKIES will hold a free screening session as part of the ‘Fan Festival’ at DANAFLIX in 10 cities (4 Seoul, Daejeon, Jeonju, Daegu, Ulsan, Gwangju, Busan) from April 1 to 15. At this screening, we can see at a glance +
Part of the South Korean art troupe and taekwondo players who were scheduled to give performances in Pyongyang ahead of a historic inter-Korean summit headed to North Korea on Saturday. Led by Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Do Jong-whan, 120 members of the troupe left Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport at +
Seoul Bamdokkaebi Night Market, which was an event organized by the city of Seoul from spring to autumn last year, comes back. On the 30th March, Seoul City said on its Facebook page, ‘Seoul Bamdokkaebi Night Market 2018’ will be reopened. Seoul Bamdokkaebi Night Market is an event organized by +
