SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese media have reported that a couple of pandas promised to Korea at the Korea-China summit of 2014 will be arriving at Incheon airport on March 3. The two-year-old and three-year-old panda couple will depart China from Chengdu International Airport in Sichuan Province on a special Korean Airlines charter. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Choi Jung-in, a 33 year-old clinical psychologist, lived with two kittens in a studio in Seoul before the trio moved in with her parents in December. She fondly remembers her first cat, Mango, which she brought in last year, for helping her ease the feelings of loneliness when she [...]
SEOUL, Feb.25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to neuter more than 10,000 stray cats in cooperation with Catmoms (a recently coined term for stray cat caregivers), animal protection groups, and veterinarians. Officials announced that the city would spend 750 million won to neuter stray cats through a public-private partnership. Firstly, 8,000 cats [...]
GWANGJU, Feb.23 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Beggar King’, a stray dog that terrorized students at Gwangju National University of Education for the past three months, has finally been captured. After being shot with a tranquilizer gun by firefighters, the dog ran away but was captured shortly thereafter. The male dog known as Beggar King showed up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A pair of giant pandas born in China will fly to South Korea as early as next month to live at an amusement park owned by Samsung Everland, company officials said Thursday. South Korea and China designated Samsung Everland as the host for the bears after Beijing decided to [...]
SINAN, Feb.12 (Korea Bizwire) – An Oenanthe deserti, a bird usually seen in the desert, has been spotted on a small island in Korea. In September 2015, a small male Oenanthe deserti catching bugs near Gageo Island was spotted by a bird watcher. Bird expert Ko Gyeong-nam succeeded in taking a picture of the rare [...]
SEOUL, Feb.11 (Korea Bizwire) – With the number of Korean pet-owners now exceeding 10 million, various businesses catering to the needs of pets are appearing. The size of the pet industry was estimated to reach 1.8 trillion won last year. Despite the sluggish economy, ‘petfams’ (a term created by putting together ‘pet’ and ‘family’) are [...]
INCEON, Feb.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon Residents are calling out for a crematorium for pets. The city has the fourth largest number of registered pets in the nation. According to officials in Bupyeong-gu, another suggestion has been made to the local government of Incheon to establish a crematorium for pets. It was the second time [...]
SOKCHO, Jan.20 (Korea Bizwire) – A spotted shark giving birth in a water tank is creating a buzz on SNS. A video clip of a shark giving birth in a water tank at the Sokcho Chungho Sashimi center is going viral. The clip has been shared extensively, with comments such as “It is so cool [...]
SEOUL, Jan.15 (Korea Bizwire) – As stray cats are an urban problem causing many issues, there have been an increasing number of cases in which stray cats crawl into electricity distribution equipment, get shocked, and cause a blackout in the neighborhood. A blackout that happened at an apartment complex in Sindang-dong turned out to have [...]