Test runs ofr the newly built Alpensia Sliding Center were successfully held from October 25 to 29 in the host city of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.For 5 days, 28 athletes and officials from 10 nations represented the International Luge Federation (FIL) while 50 athletes and officials f
The 2nd Latin American Film Festival will be held at K.U. Cinema Trap in Seoul from October 31 to November 4 under the joint organization of the 12 embassies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, in collaboration with the
E-Land Group’s travel arm Tour Mall announced on Oct. 12 that it will attract Chinese tourists in earnest by linking up with the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) industry.Tour Mall signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s state-run travel agency China Youth Travel Se
The Korea International Art Fair (KIAF) 2016/Art Seoul, the leader of the Asian art market, will run for five days from October 12 at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southern Seoul. The annual art market, which is hosted by the Galleries Association of Korea, has invited 170 galleries
The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) on Sept. 22 launched the first set of coins commemorating the upcoming Games at a special event. PyeongChang 2018 honorary ambassador and Olympic gold medalist KIM Yuna, POCOG President LEE Hee-beom, Bank of
Environmental Resources Management, or ERM, a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk and social consulting services, announced yesterday that it would attend Asia Power Week 2016, Asia’s largest and most comprehensive power and energy conference, at KINTEX in Ilsan, from Sept
As the Paralympic torch comes closer to the finish line, president Lee Hee-beom of the Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) took part in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Torch Relay as a torchbearer. On September 7 (local time), the day of the opening ceremony of the
In a bid to promote the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games Olympics at home and aboard and attract foreign tourists to Korea, Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) is hosting the K-pop Festival at the 20,000-seat Gocheok Sky Dome baseball stadium at 7 pm on September 8.The lineup of the festival includes top
Gwangju Metropolitan City has joined hands with Jangheung County to cooperate for international events to be held in the coming September.On August 9, Jangheung County and Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Yoon Jang-hyun) met Gwangju Biennale Foundation (President Park Yang-woo) to sign a memorandum
The Visit Korea Committee will hold a business fair for the 2016 Korea Sale FESTA at the Ferrum Hall on the third floor of Ferrum Tower in Euljiro, Seoul, from 4 pm on August 12 along with the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), inviting those at firms related to shopping, transportation,
Pyeongchang Day was held at Copacabana Beach during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics on August 9 in the local time.Thomas Bach, chairman of the IOC took part in Pyeongchang Day and tried VR Ski Jump at the KT booth. The Pyeongchang Booth opened on July 6 in the local time and will run until A
The 8th K-Beauty Expo, the largest beauty fair in Korea, will be held at the KINTEX in Ilsan from October 13 to 16.The expo has been sponsored by the KINTEX and Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) and organized by the Government of Gyeonggi Province to promote the beauty industry, a new
The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZA) held its 2030 vision and strategy proclamation ceremony at the G Tower in Songdo on July 19. It has come up with the plan to respond to rapid changes in the future based on its development results in the last 13 years. In addition, the authority prese
The official mascots for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the white tiger “Soohorang” and the Asiatic black bear “Bandabi,” are ready to meet their friends and share the Olympic winter sports experience.The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic
Tmall Global, an overseas platform and an extension of Tmall.com, China’s largest third-party platform for brands and retailers, held a full-day business workshop today in partnership with the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) at COEX in Seoul. Over a thousand representatives from local S
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) held a competition event for global youth presentation on Korean culture and the award ceremony of the “Cheongchuninmun Nonjangpan,” or “Exploring Korean Humanities Together,” a program to explore the
The KINTEX announced that they will hold the K-Beauty Expo Bangkok 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand to help Korean cosmetic companies make a foray into the South Asian market. Thailand is the biggest importer of Korean cosmetic products among Southeast Asian countries. Korea has exported nearly US$100 mil
The second “China·Korea·Japan Industrial Expo” is to be held in Weifang City, Shandong Province, China, for 3 days from Sep. 23 to 25.This event, jointly sponsored by Korea International Trade Association (KITA), China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), and Japan External Trad
Goyang city is a large city of 1.03 million residents, which is located north of Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. Since it is located near the Incheon International Airport, Gimpo Airport and Seoul, visitors can easily access the city. The city has a high growth potential as a culture an
KINTEX, Korea International Exhibition Center, has announced that it has attracted much attention from related industries by holding Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo at the KINTEX exhibition center of in Goyang City from June 22, with partnership with Rising Media in the US.Among participants