Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday visited the headquarters of E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s largest discount hypermarket chain, the retailer said. The chief executive attended a Philippine food festival and looked around Philippine fruits and other products at the E-Mart store in Seoul, an E-Mart official said. Earlier in the day, E-Mart signed a letter...Read More
The landscape of the air has changed. The seasons are running towards summer. The higher the temperature, the more people become desperate to cool it. A glass of cool and refreshing beer comes to mind. It is not the season of ‘Beer Mania’. As soon as the beer festival began to kick off all over...Read More
Tickets for the North American and European dates of K-pop sensation BTS’ upcoming world tour have sold out, the group’s agency said Sunday. Big Hit Entertainment said 280,000 tickets for 21 shows in 10 venues during the “Love Yourself” tour sold out during the sales window from May 5 to June 1. BTS will perform...Read More
Today I would like to share another story with you on my adventures in Korea. In June of last year, I went paragliding with one of my Korean friends. Yes, paragliding. Flying in the sky, above the mountains and clouds. It was a pretty amazing experience, but unfortunately with an unpleasant ending. I’ll tell you...Read More
Actor Jung Hae-in will hold his first fan meet-and-greet event in Seoul in July, his agency said Friday. The event, titled “Smile,” will take place at the Grand Peace Palace of Kyung Hee University at 5 p.m. on July 28, FNC Entertainment said. After Seoul, the actor will attend similar events in Taipei, Hong Kong...Read More
K-pop boy band EXO and female quintet Red Velvet will rock Busan’s annual K-pop festival to be held in October, its organizer said Thursday. The two highly popular bands will be part of the lineup for the Busan One Asia Festival (BOF) to be held from Oct. 20-28 in major public spaces in the second-biggest...Read More
K-pop darling BTS has added to K-pop history with its latest song “Fake Love,” ranked 10th on Billboard’s highly competitive Hot 100 chart. The result, released Tuesday (U.S. time), came one day after the song’s parent album “Love Yourself: Tear” reached the first spot of Billboard’s top 200 albums chart. The song’s top 10 achievements...Read More
Anyone who has photographed would have heard the word “exposure”. It refers to the amount of light that was taken to take the picture, not the exposed skin. Nowadays, mobile phones have exposure meters that show the degree of exposure. This is the ruler with numbers ranging from -2.0 to +2.0. If you have taken...Read More
South Korean President Moon Jae-in took a few minutes out of his very busy schedule to congratulate K-pop phenomenon BTS on the group’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. On Monday (May 28), about two days after meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a surprise summit to discuss peace, President...Read More
VRIGHT, which is located opposite Sinchon Station on the Gyeongui–Jungang Line, is a VR (Virtual Reality) theme park, which KT and GS Retail [007070] introduced together at the beginning of March 2018. It has become popular enough to find 4,000 people in a month after its opening. Visitors can watch VR videos and enjoy car...Read More
