SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A renowned arts center in Seoul is locked in a battle with workers as the labor union claims the institution has failed to guarantee substitute holidays for working weekends. According to the labor union at Seoul Arts Center, the arts institution has failed to guarantee substitute days off on Sundays [...]
TONGYEONG, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwie) — The picturesque port city of Tongyeong is considering the construction of another cableway, which could end up being the longest cable car line in South Korea. The new cable car project connecting Mireukdo Island and Hansando Island, and spanning a distance of 23.4 kilometers comes after the success of local [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwie) — Incheon Airport will provide emergency medical services during the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. According to the Incheon city government, medical staff from four local general hospitals including Gachon University Gil Hospital, Inha University Hospital, International St. Mary’s Hospital and Gumdan Top General Hospital will be dispatched to [...]
GAPYEONG, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The very first ‘music city’ in South Korea is set to open in Gapyeong County next January, hosting studio spaces, concert halls and lodging for artists and music fans. According to the government of Gapyeong country on Friday, the new project for South Korea’s very first music village will [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – With the South Korean shipbuilding industry left reeling by changing economic fortunes, the population of the well-known shipbuilding neighborhood of Dong District in Ulsan is dwindling fast. Data from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and Ulsan Metropolitan City released on Friday revealed the number of South Korean [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle with separately controlled wings. The researchers, led by professors Ha Dong-soo and Jo Cheon-sik, said on Thursday that they had developed a new drone that features main wings that be [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Ride sharing services haven’t taken off in South Korea due to safety concerns and discomfort with meeting strangers, a new study has found. According to the joint study conducted by the Korea Startup Forum and Research & Research, fewer than 2 in 10 South Koreans have used a ride [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Hip-hop star couple Tiger JK and Yoon Mi-rae have donated over 7,000 boxes of baby milk to charity, their agency said Friday. The husband-wife rappers donated 7,200 units of the concentrated liquid milk for infants to the Social Welfare Society (SWS) as part of the “Heart Meal” campaign, a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unification minister expressed hope Friday that next week’s high-level talks with North Korea could pave the way for an improvement in long-stalled inter-Korean ties. Cho Myoung-gyon, the country’s top pointman on unification, said that the two Koreas will likely first focus on discussing the North’s participation in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Before he left for the United States to join the Baltimore Orioles in winter of 2015, South Korean outfielder Kim Hyun-soo said he was determined to finish his playing career in the majors — so much that he said he’d consider himself “a failure” if he ever returned to [...]