SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Model houses using metaverse technology are emerging as a new trend in the South Korean construction industry, as part of efforts to reduce the cost needed to build and operate real model houses as well as to reach a wider customer base without physical limits. Lotte Engineering & Construction Co., [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO Engineering & Construction Co., the construction arm of South Korea’s leading steelmaker, POSCO, said Monday it had developed a botanical garden café called Plantrium for apartment complexes. Plantrium is a multi-leisure space where users can enjoy views of the botanical garden while eating salad and drinking tea. Unlike [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., South Korea’s leading builder, said Sunday it has received a 1.9 trillion-won (US$1.4 billion) railway order in the Philippines. Hyundai E&C will build a 56-kilometer railway connecting the capital city of Manila to the southern city of Calamba in the next six years, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of new property developer registrations reached an all-time high in the first half of this year despite the real estate market’s entry into an adjustment phase, thanks to rising demand for the development of non-residential buildings, including shopping centers. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will supply 2.7 million new homes in the next five years by easing regulations for redevelopment and reconstruction and allowing the private sector to join downtown development projects, the transport ministry said Tuesday. The home supply plan is the first of its kind since President Yoon Suk-yeol [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The district office of Yongsan said Tuesday it has approved a redevelopment plan to turn the former site of the United Nations Command (UNC) into a high-rise residential area equipped with a hotel and commercial facilities. Construction work will begin in November for the redevelopment spanning 51,753 square meters [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has so far nationalized 5.04 million square meters of land owned by Japanese citizens and Japanese companies during the 1910-45 colonial rule, the state procurement agency said Thursday. The official appraisal price of this land is estimated at 150 billion won (US$114 million) and the size of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government has disclosed medium- and long-term flood prevention measures centered on the construction of deep underground rainwater storage facilities in six flood-prone areas. According to the measures announced by Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Wednesday, the city government will spend 1.5 trillion won (US$1.15 billion) over the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Seoul will no longer give permission to construct basement or semi-basement homes, while pushing to gradually weed out existing subterranean homes, officials said Wednesday. The plan follows the deaths of three family members in a flooded semi-basement home in Seoul’s Gwanak district Monday night when [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major construction firms are banding together to address inter-floor noise, which has emerged as a major social problem in recent years. Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, announced that it recently signed an agreement with POSCO Engineering & Construction Co. and Lotte Engineering & [...]