Dunamu Inc., operator of the global crypto-asset exchange Upbit, announced on Aug. 6 the official lineup and program for the Upbit Developer Conference 2019 (UDC 2019) which will take place Sept. 4-5 in Grand Hyatt Incheon Hotel in Incheon, Korea.UDC was launched last year as one of the largest even

Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) and Chungcheongbuk-do (south Chungcheong Province) announced that they will hold the 14th Bio Korea 2019 in COEX, Seoul from April 17 to 19.It is Asia’s largest biotechnology convention, where pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, hospitals,

Sun-in Co., a leading Korean specialty food ingredient manufacturer and distributor, and Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment bank and investor in Sun-in, announced on Jan. 15 the launch of the “Breaking Bread Together” campaign with the Korean Red Cross to provide freshly baked bread to child

The Visit Korea Committee provides the Top 30 Recommended Privileges and Theme Events during Korea Grand Sale 2019 scheduled for Jan. 17 to Feb. 28, 2019.Next year’s Korea Grand Sale is expected to come with various promotion events and discount opportunities with more airlines and lodging service p

Dulwich College Seoul’s combined Junior and Chamber Choirs totaling 60 students performed a medley of Christmas carols at the Intercontinental Seoul Parnas Hotel on the evening of Dec. 6. Led by Vera Mitford, the school’s head of music, the students from Year 4 to Year 9 sang traditional favorites s

“Innovative New Zealand -- A Country-Sized Incubator” was this year’s theme for the Kiwi Chamber’s year-end networking function held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel Seoul on Nov. 28. The annual event demonstrated Korea and New Zealand’s strong bilateral relationship – an inspiring story of two small countr

KINTEX, an exhibition convention center in Goyang City northwest of Seoul, announced on Nov. 26 that it will hold the 5th Inside FinTech Conference and Expo from Nov. 29-30.The event, jointly hosted by by KINTEX and Rising Media, a U.S. event organizer, will be attended by some 2,000 international f

The Visit Korea Committee will host Korea Grand Sale 2019, an annual shopping and tourism festival, from Jan. 17 to Feb. 28.Throughout the 43 days of the festival, which is designed to attract foreign tourists to Korea, Korea Grand Sale will provide grand-scale discounts on a wide array of products

The 2018 Korea Christmas Fair & Gift Wonderland Season V will be held at Exhibition Hall 1 of KINTEX from December 7 to 16 this year.The annual fair is Asia’s largest open market exhibition that marks its fifth anniversary this year. The organizer of the fair, KINREX, added "Gift Wonderland" to its

Dulwich College Seoul welcomed on Sept. 10 the Honourable Alexandra Shackleton, the granddaughter of renowned Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who spoke to two different student groups as part of the school’s Shackleton series of lectures.“These lectures, which are named in honor of Dulwich

“Robot World 2018,” which will showcase domestic and overseas advanced robot technologies, will be held at Kintex, Ilsan, a northern suburb of Seoul, from October 10 to 13.The Korea Association of Robot Industry (KAR), which manages the large-scale annual exhibition, announced on July 10 that the ap

The RoboUniverse & K Drone/VR Summit takes place from June 28 to 30 at the KINTEX Convention Center in Goyang City, Gyeonggi Provicne. The conference is attended by a number of robot and drone manufacturers and AI, VR and AR developers, including MegaBots CEO Matt Oehrlein, Future Wise CEO Lei Han,

Korea Blockchain Week 2018 (KBW 2018) will be held in Seoul for five days from July 16 to 20, the organizer of the conference said on June 12.Blockchain Week is a global blockchain conference held in major financial hubs around the world one after another such as New York, Bangkok and Tokyo.KBW 2018

RoboUniverse & K Drone (RoboUniverse) and VR Summit return to Seoul for the fourth consecutive year. The business to business (B2B) exhibition and conference hosted by Rising Media Inc. and 3DR Holdings, in association with Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX), showcases the latest core te

The 2018 KHNP-IAEA HRD Conference takes place for five days from May 28 at the Gyeongju Hwabaek International Convention Center, co-hosted by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). More than 500 figures from over 60 countries attend the conference to di

The African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meeting kicked off in Busan on May 21, providing an opportunity to discuss the industrialization of African countries and strengthen economic cooperation between South Korea and Africa.Organized jointly by Korea's Ministry of Strategy and Finance and th

Busan, South Korea’s second largest city, will hold the 2018 Busan Financial Hub Convention on International Marine Finance on May 15 featuring high-profile business figures as speakers.This year’s annual convention will be jointly held by the Busan Metropolitan City and the Financial Supervisory Se

Lotte Property and Development will hold this year’s international vertical marathon Sky Run on May 13 (Sunday) at Lotte World Tower in Seoul.Participants in the marathon will run all the way up to the observatory on the 123th floor, taking on the challenge of climbing a total of 2,917 stairs that a

CBRE Korea, a global commercial real estate service company, held its “CBRE Forum 2018” to share insights on commercial real estate market trends in the Asia-Pacific region this morning at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul.Over 200 real estate investors and industry experts, including Ben Duncan, CEO

Dulwich College Seoul in Banpo-dong held a “Dulwich Talk” on Tuesday April 10 at 8:30 a.m. featuring Dick Moore, a former headmaster of a British boarding school and an expert speaker on the topic of mental health. The event, which was open to the public, is part of Dulwich College Seoul’s “Year of