Four-day festival offers cultural experience programs to lure urban visitors

Air France on Friday celebrates the 30th anniversary of its operating passenger flights connecting Korea and France. The French air carrier was the first European airline to start a Korean operation, on July 5, 1983. Air France was also the first airline that served Korea’s kimchi as a side dish in its in-flight meals in 1996. In 1998, the company joined the code-share agreement with Korean Air for the Seoul-Paris routes. Since 2003, Air France has operated daily flights from Seoul to Paris. Cur

The number of people moving to and from Korea totaled 1.28 million last year, a 4.4 percent increase from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea. But net migration, the difference between the numbers of immigrants and emigrants, fell to just 7,000 people.

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A private task force called on South and North Korea Wednesday to take steps to relocate electronic and machinery equipment from a suspended inter-Korean factory complex in North Korea.The move represents a growing impatience by South Korean investors over the shutdown of their factories in the North’s western border city of Gaeseong.The North pulled all of its 53,000 workers from the complex in April amid tensions with South Korea. Seoul quickly responded by bringing home all of its workers fro

LG Group on Wednesday held the 19th LG Global Challenger launch ceremony in Seoul with selected members of this year’s student expedition teams and company executives participating, the company said.LG Global Challenger is a fully-funded overseas study and exploration program for talented university students from various academic fields.Each year, the selected teams of students are given opportunities to experience and observe world-class research facilities, universities, corporations and both