On Wednesday evening in a small bookshop located a little away from the bustling university district of Shinchon gathered a dozen people: some in suits, some in casual jeans.With glasses of Big Wave Golden Ale, a Hawaiian beer, in one hand, people started to share their experiences as beer fans.  It was a beverage tasting night at booknpub, a small bookshop that sells coffee and beer in western Seoul. The bookstore, which opened in April, has a number of events, ranging from movie screenings to

South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Monday that it would toughen regulations governing online news companies and services, beginning this Thursday.Under the revised Newspaper Law, media companies with editorial staffs of five, rather than the current three, will be allowed to register with the ministry and operate online news services.They will also be required to hand in supporting documents showing that their employees will be and are receiving benefits such as health in

The album containing pianist Cho Seong-jin's award-winning performance at this year's Chopin Competition has sold out in a matter of days, the album's distributor said Friday.The 21-year-old prodigy became the first South Korean to win the world's top piano competition last month in Poland.All 50,000 copies of his live album available in South Korea were sold out Thursday, six days after it was released worldwide by the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Music said.

The upcoming South Korean war film "Operation Chromite" will pay tribute to the little-known heroes of the Battle of Incheon, producers said Friday.On Sept. 15, 1950, the U.N. and South Korean forces penetrated Incheon, then captured by the North, through an amphibious invasion. That invasion, known as the Battle of Incheon, saved South Korea from the brink of Korean War defeat and played a decisive role in its victory against the North, according to historians."Operation Chromite," directed by

A self-assembly light, portable water bottle that users can unite or separate, and a solar lamp.These are items on display at the 2015 Gwangju Design Biennale that opened Oct. 15 in the southern provincial city of Gwangju for a month-long run.An exhibition, "Gwangju Branding," which is part of the biennale, features about 10 lighting and other household items produced by Gwangju-based minor firms through collaboration with world renowned designers. They include Odile Deq, Alessandro Mendini, Ste

The Unification Ministry said Wednesday it will hold a photo exhibition of a mountain range that runs most of the length of the Korean Peninsula to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.The ministry said it will display a total of 70 photos of a chain of mountains, known as Baekdudaegan, taken by Roger Shepherd, a mountaineer from New Zealand, until Nov. 10 in Islan, north of Seoul.Baekdudaegan, described as the backbone of the peninsula, starts from

Dozens of Korean cultural properties preserved outside South Korea will be displayed in the form of 3-D videos in Seoul starting Wednesday, the cultural agency said.The exhibit at the National Palace Museum of Korea running until Dec. 27 has recreated 20 cultural properties in the virtual format, the Cultural Heritage Administration said. The United States, Canada, France, Russia and Japan are some of the current locations of the items.LG Electronics provided around 1.2 billion won ($1.1 million