MISSION, KS, Jul 6, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) - (Family Features) From puppies who’ve just been welcomed into the family, to loyal companions who’ve been providing happiness for years, Americans take serious pride in canine family members. While everyone loves their four-legged friend within the home, they may not receive such a warm welcome from the neighborhood. [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A special “vending machine” designed to collect donations for animal welfare or other causes has been installed in Seoul. On June 16, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it set up the reverse vending machine that accepts cans, PET, paper and glass bottles for recycling on a street in the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul is housing more beehives as citizens are increasingly interested in the unique experience of bee farming. A citizen school for bee farming has seen its second term students this year, and apiaries can now be found on the roofs of Seoul’s UNESCO building, a building around Yangjae Station, [...]
SEJONG, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Camel food products are not imported into or distributed in South Korea, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday, amid criticism over the government’s seemingly unrealistic advice on shunning camel meat and milk consumption to avoid Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Since the first outbreak of the acute respiratory illness on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Camels in Korea are being isolated and tested for the MERS virus to ease the anxiety of visitors to zoos, although all of them were imported from Australia or born in Korea. According to the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency on June 7, citizens do not have to fear [...]
ULSAN, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2015 Ulsan Whale Festival has opened on May 28 at Jangsaengpo in Ulsan, and will run until May 31 under the theme of ‘Mother Whales’ Love.’ A unique performance about a fictional story of a whale and a girl, delivered by a Media Facade technique, caught the attention [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — After a successful exhibition of the yellow rubber duck in Korea, 1600 paper-mache pandas have finally arrived in Korea, and will be exhibited around the nation until July. On May 25, Buddha’s Birthday, the pandas was installed at Gangnam Station’s M Stage. The 1600 bears have been traveling around the [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10,000 animals were killed on Seoul roads over the last three years, according to Saenuri Party member Lee No-geun on May 18. The number of road kills in Seoul was 11,869 from 2012 to 2014. An average of 10.7 animals were killed on the road every day. Among [...]
SUWON, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Institute is set to develop frog-rearing technologies for food purposes, according to an institute statement on May 17. The institute is planning to conduct research on farming Dybowski’s brown frogs, which are popular among people who look for special, alternative medicine-like foods. Only reared frogs can [...]
JINCHEON, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Jincheon County Office will release 120kg of loaches to eradicate mosquitoes in an eco-friendly way. An average loach is known to eat more than 1,000 mosquito larvae, and the county office started to release loaches into streams and reservoirs in the county last year. As the office in Chungcheongbuk-do [...]