SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced the development of a new system that uses closed-circuit cameras to offer parking discounts to drivers of electric vehicle (EVs) by automatically detecting batteries. The system uses CCTV cameras installed at EV charging stations to monitor how long the vehicles are plugged in [...]
SUWON, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi provincial government has announced a plan to operate South Korea’s first ‘shared fish farm’ using a breeding tank for freshwater fish at the Gyeonggi-do Marine and Fisheries Resource Research Institute located in Yangpyeong, 55 kilometers east of Seoul. Just like a shared kitchen designed to incubate restaurant [...]
DAEJEON, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Forest Service said Monday it will hold a series of online tree planting events on a metaverse platform in celebration of the upcoming Arbor Day on April 5. Anyone can access 2ndblock, a metaverse platform developed by cryptocurrency operator Dunamu, and enter the Second Forest to plant a [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee shops will now be able to recycle coffee grounds through more lenient requirements and procedures. The Ministry of Environment announced that it will designate coffee grounds as a ‘circulation resource’ starting on Tuesday. With the increasing amount of coffee consumption in South Korea, the volume of coffee grounds [...]
SEONGNAM, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Lyrics of famous Korean songs have been put up on an apartment wall as beautiful decorations. The tenants’ committee at an apartment complex in Bundang, southeast of Seoul created logo lights to shine on an apartment wall to console tenants and their families coming back after a long day [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co. took a concrete step towards preventing the spread of the coronavirus on ships as part of a pilot project. The company said Sunday that it installed virus-killing lamps on the 318,000-ton very large crude carrier (VLCC) VL Bright as part of [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched the operation of an automatic alert system to check the entry and departure of tax delinquent vehicles at 99 public parking lots in downtown areas from Friday. If vehicles subject to number-plate confiscation for tax delinquency enter the parking lot gates, the system [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has revised a law to enable rapid diagnosis of aquatic life disease through simple test kits. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on Thursday announced advance legislation notice for the revision of the Aquatic Life Disease Control Act. The act was revised to strengthen the diagnosis and [...]
SUWON, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Suwon in Gyeonggi Province has announced a plan to establish and implement a ‘smart safety service,’ including a drowsy driving detection system for buses operating in regular lanes from next month. The smart safety service, which includes the emergency rescue function in the event of accidents, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of innovative curators across Korea are turning shipping containers into art galleries. At the recently opened Dalha Gallery, the front side of a shipping container has been turned into a show window. To promote culture in the local community, the container gallery was set up to allow [...]