Goyang Street Arts Festival Goyang Street Arts Festival allows festivalgoers a chance to see performances ranging from underwater dance, midair performances to fireworks show all in one place. The festival, organized by the Goyang Cultural Foundation, will be held at Lake Park in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, an hour’s drive west of Seoul, from Sept. 24-27. For more information in Korean, visit www.gylaf.kr. Call the travel hotline at 1330 for help in Korean, English, Japanese, or Chinese. Taebaek Sunflower Festival The Taebaek Sunflower Festival takes place July 14-Aug. 16 in Guwau Village, celebrating the area’s wide array of colorful wildflowers and endless fields of sunflowers. The village in Gangwon Province has the largest sunflower fields in Korea. The festival area is +
Convenience stores in South Korea began selling thin, droplet-blocking masks on July 1. Labeled as KF-AD for Korean Filter and Anti-Droplet, the newly stocked masks are now available at CU, 7-Eleven, and Emart24 across the nation. Five masks are sold +
K-pop phenomenon Blackpink has collected several Guinness World Records titles with its new song “How You Like That,” according to the world records organization Wednesday (local time). Released on June 26, the song and its music video created a buzz +
Two service members have fully recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total number of virus patients currently under treatment among the military population to zero, the defense ministry said Thursday. It is the second time that the number of coronavirus +
K-pop girl group Blackpink’s latest song ranked No. 1 on iTunes charts in 60 nations, its management agency said Saturday, a day after the release of “How You Like That.” The number of countries where the song topped the charts +
Jeju Island is a popular travel destination this summer. As overseas travel is almost impossible due to concerns about COVID-19, more people are flocking to the southern island from the mainland. The island boasts vast natural areas, from oceans to +
The European Union (EU) has approved a guideline recommending its member states reopen their borders to 14 countries, including South Korea, after restricting all non-essential entries from outside the bloc over coronavirus fears. The European Council representing 27 member states +
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has secured a budget to provide COVID-19 emergency relief funds to foreigners. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that the third supplementary budget bill for 2020 passed by the Seoul Metropolitan Council included items for emergency +
South Korea’s new virus cases fell back to below 50 on Monday, but a continued rise in cluster infections, mostly tied to churches, put to the test the country’s capability to fight the virus. The country added 42 cases, including +
Jeju beaches were not officially opened last weekend but were already crowded with tourists. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, 99,161 tourists visited Jeju amid COVID-19 from June 26-28. Of the total, 99.7 percent are Koreans. Domestic flights to Jeju +
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on 19th Feb that it will recruit workers living in Seoul who will receive support +
Parksal Company formed a group of beautiful artists with the value of ’empathy beyond languages.’ They looked for one foreign +
Sitting in the Gangnam neighborhood in southern Seoul, nothing seems out of the ordinary about the venue — that is, +
EXO-CBX, a three-member sub-unit of popular nine-member K-pop boy band EXO, will hold special edition concerts in Japan in April. +
Stars from K-pop powerhouse JYP Entertainment have joined forces to produce a promotional video for the agency’s new girl outfit +
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK made a successful U.S. debut at Universal Music’s Grammy Artist Showcase in Los Angeles, Saturday (local +
K-pop megastar boy group BTS wrote history as it became the first Korean band to present at the Grammy Awards, +
???? 다녀옵니다 pic.twitter.com/a8Xujll85o — 방탄소년단 (@BTS_twt) February 9, 2019 BTS has arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to prepare +
TREASURE and MAGNUM, two boy bands in the making, will be combined into TREASURE 13 for a collective debut as +
Big Hit Entertainment’s new boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT) will make their official debut on March 4, the agency +
A student-run academic course introducing K-pop icon BTS and delving into its global success has been established at the University +
Black Pink will appear on the famous U.S. morning news show “Good Morning America,” according to YG Entertainment. Good Morning +
K-pop phenomenon BTS’s new music video “ON” had scored over 100 million views on YouTube by March 26. It is the group’s 23rd music video to surpass 100 million views, by far the highest number for a Korean artist or band. Girl group TWICE holds second place with 12 music +
The first cherry blooming in Seoul this spring was observed Friday, the earliest in the record due to warmer weather, the state weather agency said. It was seven days earlier than last year’s April 3 and 14 days earlier than the average date of April 10 between 1981 and 2010, +
South Korea will enforce a two-week mandatory coronavirus quarantine for all entrants from overseas starting Wednesday, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said Sunday, amid a steady inflow of virus cases from abroad. All entrants to the country, regardless of their nationality, should stay in quarantine, the prime minister said. Visitors without +
More than half of people who have been infected with novel coronavirus in South Korea have recovered, figures released by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Saturday. As of midnight Saturday, the country’s accumulated number of cases stood at 9,478 — 4,811 of whom had fully recovered, +
The number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus infections in Korea increased by 146 from the previous day. The KCDC said the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases as of midnight rose by 146 from midnight the previous day. Of the 146 new confirmed cases, 71 came from Daegu, while two +
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world approaches 500,000, the leaders of the G20 economies adopted a joint statement on Mar. 26 in which they promised to quickly release a financial package and to shore up international financial safety nets. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who +
The U.S. tour of the group BTS was eventually canceled in the aftermath of COVID-19. Big Hit Entertainment, the agency of BTS, announced its entry on March 27 and said, “The schedule for BTS’ North American tour will be adjusted, adding that the U.S. tour, which was originally scheduled to +
The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province plans to file a civil compensation suit against the mother and daughter of a 19-year-old overseas student who traveled to Jeju Island despite the suspected coronavirus infection (COVID-19). According to Jeju Island on Wednesday, the student and her mother who have been on a five-day +
The world is paying more attention to Korea’s response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) without having to resort to a national lockdown. Former British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, now a lawmaker who chairs the Health and Social Care Select Committee, on March 25 told the BBC, +
K-pop boy band BTS will join a star-studded lineup for a “special self-quarantine edition” of popular American TV show “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” set for next week, according to its broadcaster. BTS will be one of the high-profile acts performing from home for the “Homefest: James Corden’s +
Lauv, the US pop star who is popular among Korean fans for his songs “Paris In The Rain” and “I Like Me Better,” described his two collaborations with K-pop sensation BTS as a natural progression. “Basically, I met them at their show in London, and right after that, they asked +
South Korea reported 100 new cases of the novel coronavirus Wednesday, up from 76 new cases a day earlier, bringing the nation’s total infections to 9,137. The 100 new cases, which were detected Tuesday, marked the 14th consecutive day that there were 100 or fewer additional cases, according to the +
SBS will host the SBS Super Concert in Incheon on Oct. 6, featuring all K-pop stars. The SBS Popular Concert +
A “global K-pop map” showing the distribution of global viewership of K-pop clips was released on Aug. 21 by Blip, +
A recent study has revealed that temple stay programs that include traditional meditation and contemplation are in fact good for +
An annual festival on traditional Korean art and culture will kick off later this week in central Seoul, organizers said +
K-pop boy band BTS has been picked as British MTV’s Hottest Summer Superstar of the year, the broadcaster’s website showed +
SHINee Onew and EXO Xiumin will star in the Army musical “Return: Promise of the Day.” “Return: Promise of the +
Women and those in their 20s and 30s from China, Japan and Taiwan have caused the number of foreign tourists +
EDM fans should never miss the world’s top EDM festival called “Electric Daisy Carnival Korea(EDC).” EDC Korea 2019 will be +
The music label of popular K-pop girl group TWICE will team up with YouTube to produce a premium original series +
The “2019 K-ASIAN FESTIVAL,” a large-scale Hallyu festival with young people from home and abroad, will be held in Incheon. +
KCON, the world’s largest Korean pop music and culture convention, has attracted more than 1 million fans over the past +
The Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, the killing fields in Cambodia and Ground Zero (the site of the 2011 terrorist +
The threshold for luxury hotels has been lowered, with the concept of ‘hocance’, a combination of “hotel + vacation” becoming +
The boys of BTS may be on a break, but their music keeps on kicking. On Wednesday, their agency Big +
Big Hit Entertainment, the agency behind BTS, said it has acquired midsized agency Source Music, home to girl group GFriend. +
Ophelie Cambay, an 18-year-old French tourist, looked absolutely thrilled as her long-cherished dream of attending a K-pop concert in Korea +
A free film festival is being held every Saturday evening under bridges that span the Han River in Seoul. Since +
Geunjeongjeon Hall, the largest hall at Seoul’s Gyeongbokgung Palace housing the Joseon Dynasty king’s throne, will be opened to the +
K-pop superstars BTS went on a long-term break to recharge themselves following the band’s Billboard-topping back-to-back album releases, its management +
KPOP artists with high popularity at home and abroad, including the group’s LOOΠΔ, A.C.E, ONEUS and Newkidd will make a +
Seoul Bamdokkaebi Night Market, which was an event organized by the city of Seoul from spring to autumn last year, +
On the afternoon of the 29th March 2018, the cherry blossoms in the Jinhae district The festival of 361,000 cherry +
How do American women see Korean makeup? America’s famous beauty blogger used her face to introduce different makeup methods of +
It has been 3 years since ‘Let’s walk together, Incheon Festa’ firstly opened its beginning. Under the theme of Healthy +
On the 27th March live music variety SBS MTV ‘The Show’, B.A.P Him Chan takes on the youngest MC in +
A two hour train ride south of Seoul in the heart of Korea’s breadbasket is Jeonju (전주). It’s is the +
The cherry blossom began to burst. Some cherry blossom trees began to bloom on Changwon Street starting from the 26th +
On March 22, the Jeju Island Provincial Meteorological Agency said that cherry blossoms were bloomed on the standard observatory tree +
There are many cosmetics in the world, but cosmetics that are perfect for me are hard to find. Personal color +
Gyeonggido Province announced that they will develop the ‘(tentative) Millennium Tour’ course for foreign tourists. It is a history and +
