SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) hiking trail on the east coast will be closed indefinitely this week as part of the government’s efforts to fight the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in inter-Korean border areas, officials said Monday. The Gangwon Province county of Goseong, about 160 kilometers northeast of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Seoul on Wednesday announced a reorganization of its walking tour program for domestic and foreign visitors, as part of efforts to help widen their understanding of the capital city’s history and culture. The revamped Seoul City Walking Tours will launch on Oct. 1, featuring 37 guided [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to Seoullo 7017, an overpass-turned-walkway in central Seoul, recently reached 20 million, the city government said Wednesday. The milestone comes almost two-and-half years after May 2017, when the Seoul Metropolitan Government opened the elevated garden and pathway on the remains of an old overpass as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A former United States Forces Korea (USFK) base near the border with North Korea will be turned into a history park symbolizing both division and peace on the Korean Peninsula, a local government said Tuesday. The government of Gyeonggi Province said it will begin the construction of a new [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Tuesday it will host an annual tourist week late this month, offering various discounts, events and festivals to foreign tourists. “The Seoul Welcome Week 2019 will run from Sept. 27-Oct. 6,” Joo Yong-tae, head of the city’s tourist bureau, said. The large-scale event provides [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of this year’s state-led annual wintertime shopping festival aimed at attracting foreign tourists to Korea jumped nearly 40 percent to reach the milestone of 1 trillion won (US$839 million), data showed Monday. Sales from the Korea Grand Sale 2019 came to 1.25 trillion won, compared with 900.7 billion [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Walking into the back of Aston Hall, a main functions area inside the office building of the British Embassy in Seoul, there is a dim space that seems somewhat unfit in a diplomatic compound. High stools are lined up in a row along a bar, with a collection of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hiking trails along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas will be temporarily closed starting Thursday following the outbreak of African swine fever in border areas, the government said. The decision to suspend the hiking trails in Paju and Cherwon came shortly after South Korea confirmed two cases [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An island on Seoul’s landmark Han River that was abandoned for half a century will reopen as a recreational complex encompassing a forest and concert hall later this month, the metropolitan government said Wednesday. The 119,854 square-meter Nodeul Island, located near the country’s financial district of Yeouido, will open [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Wednesday that it will provide free tours of its ancient city wall under the moonlight. The moonlight tour that takes participants to old roads and villages along the defensive stone wall built during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) will take place on Sept. 24 and [...]