SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The daily number of riders on the Seoul subway system breached the 7 million mark for the first time in 1 1/2 years, data showed Thursday, partly on the back of rollbacks of COVID-19 restrictions. According to the data from Seoul subway operator Seoul Metro, 7,210,000 people rode subway [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — After two years of cancellations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea’s only golf club charity concert festival will be held again. Seowon Valley, a golf club on the northern outskirts of Seoul, on Wednesday announced that the Seowon Valley Green Concert will take place on May 28. Launched [...]
GOYANG, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Aerospace University said Tuesday that an unmanned solar-powered aircraft that it had developed succeeded in a flight from the mainland to the easternmost islets of Dokdo and back, just in time to celebrate the school’s 70th anniversary. A research team from the school developed a mini-sized solar-powered [...]
DONGHAE, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy 1st Fleet Command’s maintenance depot began offering free check-ups for fishing vessels on Tuesday in Donghae, a coastal city located 279 kilometers east of Seoul. This volunteer check-up program for fishing vessels will run for two days, and has been around since 2014 to prevent accidents caused [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of newly adopted South Korean children fell for the third consecutive year in 2021 amid the pandemic, government data showed Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of new child adoptees reached 415 last year, down from 704 in 2019 and 492 in [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the 14th consecutive month in April as economic recovery momentum has been extended despite heightened global uncertainty, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.08 million last month, up 865,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by [...]
DAEJEON, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Tuesday it has succeeded in measuring and visualizing the secretion of floral scent on a real-time basis. The KAIST research team measured floral scent secreting from a lily by measuring the relative reflection rate of volatile organic compounds with [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The pandemic has changed people’s perceptions about housing spaces, a survey showed Monday. Real estate app Zigbang conducted a survey of 750 app users, 61.7 percent of whom said COVID-19 had altered their preferences when it came to choosing a place to live. Among the respondents, the most important [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to introduce a new policy to prevent the reckless pruning of street trees. The Ministry of Environment and the National Institute of Biological Resources announced Monday the development of new instructions on the selection and pruning of street trees. Street trees are often pruned excessively before [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul saw greenhouse gas emissions by the industrial and transportation sectors decline during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic while emissions by households increased, officials said Tuesday. The estimated total greenhouse gas emissions in the city reached 45.46 million tons last year, down 0.3 [...]