SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) –Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) organized a surprise subway-riding protest at Seoul’s Myeongdong Station on the 43rd Day of Persons with Disabilities, leading to a 15-minute disruption in train services. The group demanded an increased budget for disabled people and their mobility rights. SADD has previously staged similar protests at [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With canned beer permitted at some baseball stadiums this season, convenience store chains are scrambling to host various beer promotional events. Emart24 is currently offering a beer package of six cans (two kinds) for 9,900 won (US$7.48). Customers who purchase the beer package can also sign up for a [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The neologism “DeukTem” (득템) in Korean refers to the act of obtaining an item, where “Deuk” means “to get” and “Tem” means “item”. Originally coined in the context of acquiring valuable items in online games, the term has been adapted to describe situations where one acquires a particularly good [...]
JINJU, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) —The ‘Cheonwon (1000 won) Breakfast’ program, which provides affordable and nutritious breakfasts to college students, is struggling to gain participation from universities in South Gyeongsang Province. Only one out of 23 universities in the province is currently participating in the program due to budgetary issues and uncertainty about demand. Other [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A ceremony was held on Thursday to celebrate the start of the Wirye tram line construction. Once the construction is complete, trams will return to Seoul for the first time in 57 years. The Wirye Line, scheduled for completion in 2025, will run 5.8 kilometers from Seoul Metro’s Macheon [...]
CHUNCHEON, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Police officers rescued a black puppy tied to a fence during a wildfire in Gyeongpo-dong, South Korea. The officers brought the puppy to the Gyeongpo Security Center and tried to find the owner through various channels but failed to do so. The puppy, estimated to be two to three [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of pesticides sprayed by golf courses in South Korea to manage their greens and fairways has been on an upward trend. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Environment, the nation’s 545 golf courses used 213 tons of pesticides in 2021, up 5.4 percent from [...]
GANGNEUNG, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Heading straight to the site of the disaster, some 20 government officials received a distress call indicating that a wildfire had broken out in the eastern coastal city of Gangneung and was being fanned by strong winds toward Gyeongpodae Pavilion, a state-designated cultural treasure. The site of the fire [...]
JEJU, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Narrow-mouth frogs and other amphibians native to the Geum Oreum volcanic cone on Jeju Island, famous for the wetlands inside its crater, are struggling for survival. As stone-stacking is gaining popularity among tourists, visitors to the region are moving stones away from the crater, depriving the amphibians of shade. [...]
CHANGWON, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Changwon in South Gyeongsang Province said Tuesday it will be adding 40 more hydrogen-powered inter-city and commuting buses to its fleet after being selected for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s pilot project to subsidize the replacement cost of fuel cell systems. The government plans [...]