Boasting blessed landscape with beautiful sea, islands and mountains, the coastal city of Boryeong attracts more than 16 million tourists a year. The City also has wide beaches with clean sands and mud flats that have long been loved by tourists. As one of the five largest mud flats in the world, th

As the main venue for ice sports in the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Gangneung City is making systematic preparations for the Olympic Games by building additional sports, lodging and transportation facilities as scheduled. Along with Gangneung, PyeongChang and Jeongseon will

The millennium-old Gangneung Danoje Festival, which is registered as the first UNESCO Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in festival segment, will be held for 8 days from June 5 to June 12, 2016 in Gangneung. The annual Gangneung Danoje Festival will be launched on May 11 with t

As the ‘Literature Promotion Act’ was enacted late last year, the government is empowered to establish the National Korean Literature Museum. And a number of local autonomous governments, including the Eunpyeong-gu Office, are competing to attract the literature museum, arguing appropriateness of th

Ambassadors Krzysztof Majka of Poland and 18 other members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps attended the significant 2016 Yeongam Dr. Wangin Culture Festival in Yeongam County in the southwestern province of Jeollanam-do in a two-day tour on April 7-8, 2016. Also attending the event were Ambassadors An

As an area in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul was designated as the ‘Eunpyeong Bukhan-san Special Korean Culture District,’ municipal administrative authorities and traditional cultural organizations are joining hands to promote traditional culture and arts as well as tourism contents by leveraging these tradit

The Gangnam-gu Office (Mayor: Shin Yeon-hee) recently announced an addition of a new program of regularizing Taekwondo, Korean martial art, performance at the Kukkiwon in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, the world Taekwondo headquarters. The new performance program is designed primarily for international tourists

Ambassadors Milan Lajciak of Slovakia. Niroshani Manisha Gunaseker of Sri Lanka, Thura H. Thet Oo Maung of Myanmar, Peteris Vaivars of Latvia, Askar Beshimov of Kyrgyzstan and Salohiddin Kiromov of Tajikistan, some 30 other senior diplomats and spouses and Korean and Chinese journalist leaders atten

Mayor Jeon Dong-pyeong of the Yeongam County, near Gwangju, is hosting the 2016 Wangin Culture Festival in his county on April 7-10, 2016 for a four-day run in memory of the noted Korean scholar, Wangin Baksa (Dr. Wangin), who spread Hanja, Chinese characters and classics, to Japan in the third cent

Governor Kim Kwan-yong of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Province hosted the inaugural meeting of the Opinion Leaders’ Committee of Korea on the ‘2017 Ho Chi Minh City-Gyeongju Silk Road Expo’ at the Press Center in Seoul on March 23, 2016 with the attendance of some 50 members of the Committee, including for

Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok of the Incheon Metropolitan City said that the Governors Association of Korea (GAOK) has been contributing greatly to the promotion of exchange and cooperation between Korea's local governments and those of other countries by establishing a close network with foreign missions in

This year's conference asks you all to do so under the theme “North Korean Studies Today, Talking about Korean Unification.” I deeply thank Minister of Unification Hong Yong-pyo and Chairperson of the Korean Association of North Korean Studies Cho Seong-Ryoul for the invitation to speak at this year

Ambassadors Natallia Zhylevich of Belarus, Kouassi Bile of Cote d’Ivoire, Jorge Roballo of Argentina and Mohamed Abdi Gello of Kenya with 20 other senior diplomats, including the charges d’affaires, visited Handong Global University in Pohang City on the Southeast Coast of Korea on Nov. 12, 2015 at

A large-scale traditional Korean religious rite and dance festival was held at the Ansan Art Center in the Ansan City of Gyeonggi Province, some 26 miles southwest of Seoul, on Oct. 23, 2015 with the attendance of Director Kim Bong-shik of the Ansan Art Center, Chairman Choi Soo-jin of GyeongsinYeon

The members of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps who missed the 2015 Nakdong River World Peace Culture Festival in Chilgok near Daegu on Oct. 2015, really missed something, especially the military attaches. They forwent the rare opportunity to inspect the Chilgok Patriots & Peace Memorial which was dedicat

Chef de Cuisine Bernard Butz of the Millennium Seoul Hilton rewrote a time-honored traditional Korean saying that is said in praise of an extremely tasty food. The Star Chef won the unprecedentedly high comment for the food he cooked at the ‘International Food Show of the Star Chefs of the Super-Del

Mayor Im Chang-ho of the Hamyang County opened the 12th Hamyang Wild Ginseng Festival at the Sangrim Park in the ‘Thousand-year Old Woods’ of Hamyang on July 30, 2015 on the theme of ‘Experience the History, Culture and Mystery of Thousand Years with Wild Ginseng’ which will continue for a four-day

Mayor Lee Suk-woo of the Namyangju City on the eastern outskirts of Seoul hosted the 1st Slow Life Forum on Humanity as part of a series of academic meetings of the 12th Namyangju Slow Life Planet Festival at the aT Center in southeastern Seoul on July 29, 2015. ▲Mayor Lee Suk-woo of Namjangju City

Mayor Choi Moon-soon of the Hwacheon County of Gangwon Province hosted a celebration meeting of the 205th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Colombia at the Battle Monument of the Colombian Troops at Mahyeon-ni, Sangseo-myeon, Hwacheon County on July 18, 2015. It was also in memory of th

Ever heard of a man named Byeon Gang-soe? Byeon has an insatiable carnal desire and an unmatched male potency. Byeon appears in Pansori (famed traditional Korean narrative song) where he is portrayed to have lived with Ongnyeo, a woman who had such a sex appeal that all the men who married her died