SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Local builders are resorting to early retirement plans and large-scale manpower reshuffles to weather a possible industry-wide slump going forward, people in the sector said Wednesday. Samsung C&T has been carrying out staff restructuring over the past two years and recently opened an early retirement package to employees who [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey announced that a canal project that has included Korean construction companies by request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be breaking ground next year. In an interview with local Turkish media Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s transportation minister yesterday revealed that the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has established plans to create a system that utilizes smart construction technology by 2025 and to implement an automated construction system by 2030. This is according to the “smart construction technology roadmap” drawn up by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Smart construction incorporates [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — As a recent governmental measure aimed at curbing prices of real estate properties has made it more difficult for individuals to obtain loans to buy properties, there has been an increasing number of people who are placing successful bids for auctions of properties that are tendered under corporations. According [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey has found that 80,000 South Koreans own five or more housing units that are being rented out to tenants. According to an analysis by Liberty Korea Party Rep. Kim Sang-hoon of data provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), 6.14 million people owned a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A 41 year-old office worker earned a windfall of 80 million won (US$71,000) over a canceled apartment transaction, a case that underscores the recent rapid surge in home prices in Seoul. The salaried worker of a major South Korean conglomerate made a down payment of 10 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) –A new study has found that young adult couples in their 20s and 30s must save up for more than 15 years without spending a single cent in order to purchase a respectable apartment unit in Seoul. According to Statistics Korea, the average monthly disposable income for households under 39 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) –The average living space for households in Seoul was found to be the smallest in South Korea. In addition, the living space in the Gangnam district including Seocho-gu was greatest of all the 25 municipalities in Seoul. According to data released by Statistics Korea yesterday, the average living space per [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean construction firm SK Engineering & Construction Co. said Monday that it plans to complete the construction of temporary shelters by next month in southeastern Laos, which was hit hard by a devastating flood. SK E&C said the structures can accommodate about 150 households on a 10,000-square-meter area [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A middle-aged South Korean woman got married to and divorced from the same man twice, a rare occurrence in most parts of the world. But the couple’s on-again, off-again relationship may have been motivated by more than just their feelings for each other: The couple’s fake divorce appears to [...]