 Air Busan to Soon Pass 10 Million Customers 5 days 20 hours ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- Air Busan, the low-cost airline based in Busan is poised to exceed ten million passengers just four years and seven months after its launch.
An official of Air Busan said it was launched in October 2009 starting with a domestic line between Busan and Seoul and the total number of passengers using Air Busan was over nine-point-nine-two million people according to recent data. It is expected that the number will be over ten million soon.
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 Busan Contents Market Gets Underway 2 weeks 1 day ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The world broadcast product business festival Busan Contents Market started its three day run yesterday.
Six-hundred companies from fifty-four countries took part including the terrestrial broadcasting stations such as SBS and KNN. Disney also made its debut at the festival.
Last year's festival made sixty billion won. This year, there are high expectations for contents trading including consultancy between investors and production companies... |
 Geoje Police Agency to Add More Officers 2 weeks 4 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The Geoje Police Agency has been upgraded to a 'first-degree area' force, announcing that they will hire more officers.
The Ministry of Public Administration and Security decided to upgrade the agency. The change takes place from tomorrow.
This comes a year after Kim Han-pyo, the Saenuri-party national assembly member called on the National Police Agency to promote the Geoje Police Agency.
Demands on the... |
 Sea Art Festival 2013 to Open in Under Theme of 'With Songdo: Remembrance, Marks, People' 4 weeks 4 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- Sea Art Festival 2013 will be open on the Songo Beach from Sept. 14 to Oct. 13 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Songdo beach under the theme of "With Songdo: Remembrance, Marks, People."
The festival is organizing a competition to select 20 outstanding works and 15 invitational works for a total of 35 installations from in and outside of Korea. Park Tae-won, Planning Chairman of the Busan Fine Arts Association has been named the artistic... |
 Foreign Direct Investment Heats Up Across Busan 4 weeks 4 days ago
 BUSAN, South Korea -- The “Buy Busan” wave for foreigners is heating up. Foreign investment in Busan has reached new highs including an increasing number of real estate purchases by foreigners in Marine City,...
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 Bill Gates Visits South Korea 4 weeks 5 days ago
SEOUL, South Korea -- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, visited the National Assembly Monday and asked lawmakers to step up aid to developing countries, putting to use South Korea's experience of becoming the first recipient of foreign aid to become a donor country.
In a speech at the National Assembly, the former CEO of Microsoft praised South Korea's transformation thanks to improved health care and agricultural productivity, and the Saemaul... |
 Korean Adults Struggle to Prepare for Retirement 5 weeks 5 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- A government survey showed that South Korean adults want to work until the age of sixty-four on average, but only fourteen percent of them are actively preparing to re-orient themselves in the job market after retirement.
The survey of two-thousand adults, conducted by the state-run Korea Employment Information Service between October and November last year, said they hope to work until the age of sixty-three-point-nine on average.
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 BIFF News - Ties That Bind Announces its Participants for 2013 7 weeks 9 hours ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- TIES THAT BIND Asia - Europe Producers Workshop (TTB) announces ten participants for its 2013 program. Organised by Busan International Film Festival, the Udine Far East Film Festival, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund, and EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), the program brings together five producers with feature fiction projects from Asia and five from Europe to participate in two workshops.
Notable participants in TTB2013 include Bianca... |
 Busan City to Add Extra Local Buses for National Maritime Museum Visitors During Weekends 7 weeks 3 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- To provide convenient access via public transportation for National Maritime Museum visitors, Busan City is adding more buses to local bus route no. 66 traveling from Busan Station to Taejongdae via Jungang-dong Station and the National Maritime Museum. The five extra buses operate every weekend from March 16 to the end of May. Weekend museum visitors can use local bus no. 66 at 10-minute intervals. Bus no. 66 usually operates during weekdays at 20-minute intervals.... |
 City Chosen as Best Place to Invest over China 7 weeks 4 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The world's leading news source, CNN, shows Busan placed ninth on the list of “Best Cities to Invest in Asia-Pacific.Busan beat Beijing and Shanghai to be ranked as one of the “best cities to invest” in the Asia-Pacific.
Solidiance, a global marketing strategy consulting firm, recently named the city No. 9 on its list of the “10 best cities to do business in the Asia-Pacific.” The feat was reported in CNN and the Wall Street Journal on March 12.
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