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An ad for Hangang Summer FestivalA scene from the Fire Dance Program performed during the festival last year.(Photos: Seoul City)
Seoul City has kicked off a month-long festival along the Han River entitled “Hangang All-in (Mongttang) Summer Festival.” Eighty programs in 80 different colors have …
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A group of Korean dignitaries is shown at the May 18 opening of the Korea Tourism Organization booth at Tokyo’s Haneda Int’l Airport to promote the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics set to run Feb. 9-25 in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, Korea. They included Gov. Choi Moon-soon of Gangwon Province, …
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Millennium Seoul Hilton is offering a special room package for Seoul urbanites to take advantage of the much anticipated Seoullo 7017, which will be open to the public on May 20th. The ambitious project reclaims large elevated roads and remodels them into pedestrian-friendly walkways abound with l…
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Jorge Costa Oliveira, Portuguese secretary of state for internationalization affairs
Jorge Costa Oliveira, Portuguese secretary of state for internationalization affairs, wound up a five-day official visit to Korea on June 15, designed to cement bilateral ties between the two countries. His latest …
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KOTFA 2017 (Korea World Travel Fair) opened the gate to the public on 1 June 2017. They celebrated its 32th anniversary as well, with many tourism-related industry officials including President Hong Ju-min of Korea World Travel Fair and Chairman Shin Jung-mok of the Organizing Committee for 2017 KOT…
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Seolbong Lake in Icheon, Gyeongigi-do, is part of the venue of the Icheon Ceramic Festival that took place from April 28 to May 14.
(Photo: Icheon Ceramic Festival)The government designated the period April 29 to May 14 as a time to travel in Korea to reinvigorate the domestic tourism industry.Duri…
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Seoullo 7017, opened on May 20 for public, seen at night from the side of Ahyon-dong, the other side of the Seoul Railroad Station.A part of Seoullo 7017 filled with pedestrians enjoying the new walkway decorated with plants and trees along the walk.(Photos: Seoul City)
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Millennium Seoul Hilton’s flagship buffet and all-day-dining restaurant, Cafe 395, will feature the cuisine of the Philippines prepared by Filipina celebrity chef Michelle Adrilliana. This special showcase will be held from June 8th to the 13th, so don’t hesitate to try out how exciting an…
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The A350, introduced by Asiana Airlines. (Photo: Asiana Airlines)
Asiana Airlines President Kim Soo-cheon said the national flag-carrier will aggressively come up with steps to cope with losses stemming from its aviation routes to China. It has been suffering from China’s retaliation against Korea…
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A poster for 32nd KOFTA2017 slated for June 1-4 at Coex in Seoul.KOFTA President Hong Ju-min and President Lee Chang-hoon of Yeople Co. hold a copy of the agreement signed for their respective companies for cooperation in the KOFTA 2017 and side events.(Photos: KOFTA)
The 32nd Korea International T…
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Acting President Park Hee-sung of the Korea East-West Power Co. (EWP), President Kim Nam-kyun of the Korea Forestry Promotion Institute (KOFPI), and President Denaldy of Indonesian state-run forest company Perum Perhutani participated in a ceremony t…
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Vice Chairman Woo Yoo-cheol of Hyundai Steel.(Photo: Hyundai Steel)Hyundai Steel has succeeded in producing next-generation auto steel sheet prototypes based on artificial intelligence algorithms used in AlphaGo, the AI computer program developed by …
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POSCO Chairman Kwon Oh-joon attends a ceremony of setting a fire to the third blast furnace of the Pohang Steelworks on June 6.
The third blast furnace at the Pohang Steelworks entered operability as the world’s fifth largest blast furnace, after w…
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President Cho Hwan-eik of Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) gives an appointment letter to Prof. Cha Sang-gyun of Seoul National Univeristy who was tapped as chairman of a committee designed to purse “Digital KEPCO’ based on big data and ICT to pr…
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