SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have decided to stop offering motorcycle escorts for college entrance test-takers in some regions for legal reasons on the day of the national college entrance exam that will take place on Thursday. The Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency, for instance, plans to use 49 patrol cars rather than motorcycles [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of campgrounds in South Korea is increasing rapidly after COVID-19 sparked the popularity of outdoor activities. The Korea Tourism Association said Tuesday that the number of campgrounds in the country reached 3,205 locations as of late September, up by 14.3 percent from the previous year. Among them, [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the state-administered College Scholastic Aptitude Test on Thursday, island-dwelling students are coming to the mainland, staying at city hotels as they prepare for the upcoming exam. Half of the 70 students from islands in Incheon’s Ongjin County, about 50 kilometers west of Seoul, came to the mainland [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Plastic drums will be installed on the access roads to the Incheon Bridge that services South Korea’s main air transportation terminal to prevent people from jumping to their death. Incheon Bridge Co., the operator of the bridge, decided to install some 1,500 plastic drums at intervals of five meters [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40,000 birds have died after running into glass and soundproof walls in the last four years, data showed Monday. Naturing, an open platform for nature-watching, said that since July 2018, 3,497 of its members found 38,084 birds killed in collisions with glass buildings and transparent soundproof walls [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese netizens are once again making false arguments that kimchi originated in China. Last Friday, Chinese state media published an article titled “Pao Cai makes it to Qatar earlier than Korean football players prior to the World Cup” and others. Pao Cai is a term persistently used in China [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that its ‘Metaverse Seoul’ was named as one of the Best Inventions of 2022 by the U.S. news magazine TIME. Metaverse Seoul was recognized as the only case of innovation among public inventions in the metaverse category. It is a metaverse platform established for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean military couple has celebrated the first birthday of their quintuplets. Army Capt. Seo Hye-jeong and and Army Capt. Kim Jin-soo from the 17th Infantry Division held the first birthday party of their five children in Masan, South Gyeongsang Province. The quintuplets were born at Seoul National [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — At 6:34 p.m. on Saturday, tens of thousands of cellphone lights illuminated the night sky throughout Sejong-daero in central Seoul. Participants joining in a memorial gathering for the victims of the Itaewon crowd crush turned on the lights at the same time that the first emergency call was made [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A “yellow carpet” was laid out on a popular tourist island in South Korea using autumn leaves. Some 10 tons of autumn leaves were collected in Songpa District, Seoul to create a 100-meter-long “yellow carpet” on Nami Island, located in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province. The leaves are regarded as a [...]