SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Wildfires ravaging South Korea’s southeastern region forced more residents to evacuate Tuesday, as firefighting authorities struggled to contain the rapidly spreading blazes that destroyed a centuries-old temple. The fires that began in Sancheong County in the southeast on Friday have spread to nearby Uiseong, and were advancing to neighboring [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Wildfires raging in southeastern South Korea over the past several days have burned 14,694 hectares of woodland, caused 15 casualties, including four fatalities, and left more than 3,300 people displaced, the government said Tuesday. Acting Interior Minister Ko Ki-dong announced the latest extent of forest fire damage at a [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities will intensively deploy helicopters to battle the deadly wildfires that have engulfed the southeastern county of Sancheong for the fourth consecutive day Monday, as the blaze is spreading to the adjacent Hadong County, officials said. As many as 36 helicopters were deployed to the two counties in South [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has formally confirmed its ratification of a U.N. agreement on the sustainable use of marine biological diversity, becoming the first East Asian country to do so, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. South Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Hwang Joon-kook deposited an instrument of the ratification for the [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecommunications company, announced on Tuesday that it will become the nation’s first telecom provider to adopt eco-friendly bobbins for its fiber optic cables starting in April. Bobbins, the cylindrical structures used to store and transport cables, are traditionally made from wood. KT’s new bobbins, [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Unseasonal heavy snow pounded Seoul and the central regions beginning early Tuesday morning, disrupting rush-hour traffic across the capital areas. Amid an unexpected heavy snow advisory issued the previous day, Seoul had received 11.9 centimeters of snow as of 8:20 a.m., compared with 13.8 cm in Uijeongbu of Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Environmental authorities on Tuesday enforced emergency emission reduction measures in the Seoul metropolitan area for the first time this year in the face of heavy ultrafine dust concentrations. The measures, which include a mandatory alternate no-driving system for public vehicles, a road ban for old diesel cars, and reduced [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T’s construction division has won a main prize in the product category at the iF Design Award 2025 for its Raemian brand upcycled goods, the company announced on March 6. The iF Design Award, established in 1953 by the German International Forum, is one of the world’s most prestigious [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Forty-one ferry sailings and four flights were canceled nationwide Tuesday, anti-disaster authorities said, amid heavy snow that has blanketed the central provinces of Chungcheong, the southeastern provinces of Gyeongsang and the northeastern province of Gangwon since the weekend. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, 41 passenger [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced a new initiative to prevent wild birds from colliding with buildings and transparent noise barriers. The city will be accepting participants for its ‘Wild Bird Collision Prevention Project’ from March 4 to March 18. The project aims to reduce injuries and fatalities among birds [...]