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Seoul designs new bilingual guide for Hanoi heritage site

Visitors to Hanoi’s historic Imperial Citadel of Thang Long can now explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site with a new Korean-Vietnamese guide, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government using its official city fonts and colors. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that it will distribute the Korean-Vietnamese guide to mark Hangeul Day on Friday and deepen cultural exchanges with Hanoi. The project comes as Seoul and Hanoi mark 30 years of their friendship-city relationship, adding a cultural dimension to ties between the two cities. The guide covers nine major historic sites and nine key artifacts, with a numbered map designed to help visitors follow a clear route through the citadel. Among the sites highlighted are Hanoi Flag Tower, Doan Mon Gate and an underground bunker, while artifacts in the permanent exhibition are arranged chronologically to illustrate the site’s history. The Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, built during Vietnam’s Ly dynasty in the 11th century, is one of Hanoi’s major historical and cultural sites and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. S

Oct 8, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul designs new bilingual guide for Hanoi heritage site
People & Events

Seoul Museum of History extends evening hours with autumn exhibitions, performances

The Seoul Museum of History is turning autumn evenings into an invitation to linger, with exhibitions, hands-on workshops, performances and traditional market stalls running into the night. The museum has extended its evening hours through Nov. 30, keeping its permanent and special exhibition galleries, city model theater and Seoul History Archives open until 9 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The expanded hours, which began Sept. 15, are accompanied by programs designed to give visitors new ways to experience Seoul’s history and culture after work and on weekends. A traditional market called Seoyeokbak Jajetgeori will run Friday through Sunday, with stalls inspired by Joseon-era markets offering traditional crafts, cultural goods, food and drinks. On Friday and Saturday, the market will remain open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., while Sunday’s hours will run until 5 p.m. The museum will also host Exhibition Night Talk, in which curators who organized exhibitions explain their themes and introduce key artifacts directly to visitors. Seoul Urban Planning Grand View

Oct 8, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul Museum of History extends evening hours with autumn exhibitions, performances
Companies

Hancom partners with AWS to bring Nomadian AI workforce platform to US

Korea's leading office software developer, Hancom, is taking its Nomadian artificial intelligence (AI) workforce platform to the U.S. market, teaming with Amazon Web Services to shape everything from product design and pricing to marketing and distribution. Hancom said Thursday that it will work with AWS on a 10-week program called Hancom x AWS CoLab as it prepares to launch Nomadian in the U.S. The program will cover product development and market strategy, with AWS supporting development in its cloud environment while both companies examine market size, customer willingness to pay, pricing and revenue models. Hancom will lead product vision and key decisions, while CoLab will use Amazon’s Working Backwards approach to map out its initial customers, market-entry strategy and launch road map. Hancom and AWS held a kickoff meeting Sept. 21, attended by business development and sales representatives from Hancom and AWS technology. Nomadian is designed for solo entrepreneurs, allowing users to assemble teams of AI agents for roles including data analysis and content marketing and assign wo

Oct 8, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Hancom partners with AWS to bring Nomadian AI workforce platform to US
K-pop

HYBE takes flagship Weverse Con festival overseas for 1st time with India debut

HYBE — the Korean entertainment giant behind global icons like BTS and SEVENTEEN — is bringing its flagship music showcase, Weverse Con Festival, to New Delhi on March 27 and 28 for its very first overseas edition. HYBE said Thursday that Weverse Con Festival India will be held with HYBE India, bringing together leading K-pop artists and artists from India’s music scene for a two-day event. The festival will mark the first time Weverse Con Festival has been held outside Korea since its launch in 2023. Weverse Con Festival has brought together artists across generations and genres, expanding its lineup from 20 acts in its first year to 30 acts this year. HYBE said the India edition will feature top K-pop artists alongside leading Indian musicians, with the lineup scheduled to be announced in October. The festival will also feature fan participation events and programs offering attendees opportunities to experience K-pop culture beyond live performances. HYBE said Weverse Con Festival India is designed to connect K-pop and Indian music while bringing together fan communities from both

Oct 8, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
HYBE takes flagship Weverse Con festival overseas for 1st time with India debut
People & Events

Seoul to mark Hangeul Day centennial at Gwanghwamun Square

Seoul will turn Gwanghwamun Square into a celebration of Korea’s written language Friday, marking 100 years since Hangeul Day was established with exhibitions, hands-on activities and performances. The Seoul Metropolitan Government will host Seoul Buzzes With Hangeul from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 9 at the square’s Nori Madang, beside the statue of King Sejong. The event marks the centennial of Hangeul Day and 580 years since the publication of "Hunminjeongeum," while revisiting the square’s long association with King Sejong and Hangeul. The statue was unveiled on Oct. 9, 2009, and Seoul opened Sejong Story, an exhibition space beneath it detailing King Sejong’s life and the creation of Hangul. The exhibition hall was later expanded to include Admiral Yi Sun-sin and is now operated as Sejong and Chungmugong Story. Following Gwanghwamun Square’s reopening in 2022, Seoul added Hangeul Fountain, which uses water streams to depict consonants and vowels based on Hangeul’s “cheonjiin” principle. Friday’s program will include displays on commonly misunderstood Korean expressions

Oct 7, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul to mark Hangeul Day centennial at Gwanghwamun Square
People & Events

Busan enlists foreign residents to welcome global travelers at its busiest transit hub

In the busy concourses of Busan Station, navigating transport routes and foreign signage can feel overwhelming for international travelers arriving in Korea’s premier coastal destination. To bridge that linguistic and cultural divide, local authorities are turning to an underutilized local asset: the city’s vibrant community of international students and foreign residents. Busan is placing these residents on the front line of its hospitality efforts, recruiting 14 volunteers from 10 countries to serve as mobile tourism guides inside the station. The city formally kicked off the initiative Tuesday with a launch ceremony at the Busan Global City Foundation for Visit Busan Mate, a pilot program aimed at making navigating local attractions, transit and amenities far more seamless for incoming tourists. The city can draw on a rapidly expanding demographic: while Busan’s total population has gradually declined over the past decade, its registered foreign residents have nearly doubled to exceed 80,000, driven by a surge in international students — now over 24,000 strong — and foreign

Oct 7, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Busan enlists foreign residents to welcome global travelers at its busiest transit hub
Travel & Food

Korea launches inaugural 'Korean Food Day' with 3-day festival in Seoul

Korean food will take center stage at National Museum of Korea later this month as Korea marks its first legally designated Korean Food Day with a three-day festival featuring chefs, food creators and industry experts. HANSIK FESTA will run Oct. 23-25 at the museum’s auditorium and Mirror Pond area, with events organized by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Friday’s program will include the first Korean Food Day ceremony and a conference examining how Korean cuisine can evolve as both a cultural asset and global industry. Speakers will include chef Ok Dong-sik, chef Son Jong-won of Eatanic Garden, producer Lee Wook-jung, Park Hyun-young of Life Trend Observation Center and Kim Sook-jin of CJ CheilJedang. The conference will explore Korean food’s place in global dining, its emergence as a brand and how food, culture and media have helped carry Korean cuisine beyond Korea. Visitors can watch cooking demonstrations featuring master chef Lee Ha-yeon, chef Han Shin-hee, monk Woo Kwan, chef Park Joo-eun and food creators including Magic Boy K

Oct 7, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Korea launches inaugural 'Korean Food Day' with 3-day festival in Seoul
People & Events

Seoul Botanic Park turns autumn garden into wedding scene

Seoul Botanic Park is turning its autumn garden into a landscape of swaying grasses, flowers and wedding photo spots while adding dozens of rare native plants for visitors to discover. The park’s Theme Garden is hosting “Pamfare, Invitation Sent by Wind” through Nov. 8, with displays centered on Pampas grass and other ornamental grasses in its Wind Garden and Gardener’s Garden. The exhibition’s name combines “Pampas” with “fanfare,” evoking the sound of grasses moving in the autumn wind and the celebratory mood of a garden in bloom. Five varieties of grasses not previously featured at the garden, including Pampas grass and pink muhly grass, are being displayed alongside existing plantings such as big panic grass and purple-colored ornamental grasses. The park has also planted 260 specimens of statice and Japanese anemone, adding autumn flowers to beds featuring purple verbena and pink gaura. Four wedding-themed photo zones offer visitors settings including a Pampas-covered wedding arch, a small outdoor ceremony site, a romantic bridal waiting room and a set of Pampas win

Oct 7, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Seoul Botanic Park turns autumn garden into wedding scene
Companies

Paris Baguette offers healthy Paran Label products across Singapore stores

Paris Baguette, Korea’s largest bakery chain, is expanding its health-focused Paran Label line across all 28 of its Singapore stores — marking the global debut for the brand, named after the Korean word for blue, as local demand rises for breads that balance nutrition and taste. The bakery chain first introduced Paran Label at its Paragon store in Singapore in February before expanding it across its network after testing consumer response. The lineup now includes seven products, five breads and two sandwiches, with Multigrain Rye Bread, Smoked Salmon Ricotta Sandwich and Roasted Chicken Ricotta Sandwich among its best-selling items. After the expansion, average 30-day sales in the sliced-bread category rose 57 percent from the May-to-July average recorded before Paran Label reached all stores, while sales of sandwiches and salads increased 10 percent. Paris Baguette said the brand has drawn customers with products emphasizing dietary fiber, lower sugar, protein and probiotics while retaining varied textures and flavors. The company has also paired breads with sandwiches and salads des

Oct 7, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Paris Baguette offers healthy Paran Label products across Singapore stores
Companies

Boston Dynamics taps Amazon AI veteran to lead physical AI push

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad, an artificial intelligence (AI) veteran who helped build Alexa and lead Amazon’s foundation-model efforts, as its new chief executive officer as it moves to fuse AI with advanced robotics. Prasad, who joins the company Wednesday, will lead Boston Dynamics’ push to commercialize intelligent robots and expand physical AI applications across industries, the company said. Before joining Boston Dynamics, Prasad spent 12 years at Amazon, where he served as senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence. He joined Amazon in 2013 during Alexa’s early development and later led work on Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models developed for generative AI applications. Prasad previously spent nearly 14 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies, where he worked on machine-learning research and applications for government and commercial customers. Boston Dynamics said Prasad’s experience turning AI research into products, platforms and business ecosystems would help accelerate commercialization of intelligent robotic sys

Oct 7, 2026By Lee Kyung-min
Boston Dynamics taps Amazon AI veteran to lead physical AI push
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