SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the Korean government’s disclosure of a list of the hospitals affected by MERS, patient visits to these institutions have dropped drastically. Samsung Seoul Hospital, where 17 cases of the MERS virus broke out, had 18 percent of its medical staff isolated, and saw its number of daily visitors [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A boar caused a scene at the center of Busan’s downtown, running wild for fifteen minutes before finally being shot by the police. On June 7, police received a report that a boar had hit a car and ran away. About 20 ambulance crews and police officers ran to [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently hatched baby toads began a mass migration from Mongwol Pond, Korea’s largest spawning ground for toads, to their nearby habitat at Uksu Stream, on June 5, in Daegu. According to Suseong District officials, about 1,000 baby toads were seen taking part in the exodus. It was a day [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Two camels at Seoul Grand Park, which have been isolated from the public since June 2 due to concerns over MERS, were confirmed to have tested negative for the virus on June 5. Seoul Grand Park showed the camels to the public on June 6. Park officials said that [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) ― To commemorate its sixth year of collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), LG Electronics (LG) will mark the occasion with a global employee volunteer program to start on World Environment Day (WED), June 5. World Environment Day (www.unep.org/wed) was established by the United Nations General Assembly in [...]
GOYANG, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A cargo truck caught fire on the roads of Sinpyeong-dong in Goyang on June 2, possibly due to a cigarette butt thrown by a careless driver. The fire completely destroyed the truck’s load of kitchen utensils, resulting in a 15 million won (US$ 13,530) property loss, and was put [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — KB Kookmin Bank launched a new OTP (one-time password) generating security card that does not require customers to manually write down generated OTPs. The new ‘Smart OTP Service’ is comprised of a credit card-type OTP generator that only needs to be put near a smartphone to authenticate a trade. [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – While visiting the Hanok (Korean traditional house) Village in Jeonju, Charles Hay, the British Ambassador to Korea, could not hide his amazement at its splendid beauty. Ambassador Hay visited Jeonju on June 2, and enjoyed the traditional beauty of the village. While in the village, he looked around some 700 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Post is launching a series of ‘Must Visit Korean Places’ stamps, according to a statement on June 2. First in the series is a four-stamp set which features photographs of Dumulmeori, where the South Han River and North Han River meet in Yangpyeong, Goesan Mountain’s Hwayang Valley draped [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Forty guerrilla gardeners from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at Konkuk University and eight elderly citizens planted flowers in a park at Ttukseom Recreation Area on May 31. Five university students from the department started guerrilla gardening in 2013, and the tradition has since spread, with all of the enrolled [...]