GANGNEUNG, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Cities on the east coast in Gangwon Province plan to broadcast live footage of the New Year’s sunrise for residents and tourists unable to visit due to COVID-19. The city of Gangneung will open up a live broadcast of the New Year’s sunrise via its official YouTube channel at [...]
ULLEUNG, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s eastern island of Ulleung, which gets the heaviest snowfalls in the country, is now home to an under-road heating system to keep an important thoroughfare clear. The Ulleung County Office invested 200 million won (US$168,500) to set up an under-road heating system on a 100-meter stretch of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea’s major conglomerates are closing this year quietly without having year-end ceremonies. In the midst of the new trend of skipping large-scale year-end ceremonies that have been held in auditoriums in the past, combined with the impact of the pandemic, year-end ceremonies are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A new era is opening up for pets to fly on airplanes just like humans. Animal transport on Air Busan Co. and Jeju Air Co. last year jumped by 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, maintaining a similar level of increase this year. “With active promotion by airlines, people [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean lender Shinhan Bank has turned its branch in Sillim-dong, southern Seoul into a so-called ‘digital store’ to better accommodate senior customers. The branch focused on setting up automated devices and making it easier for senior customers to use them. The size of the menu button on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency announced on Monday that it will introduce a new service to enable the location and situation of those making 112 (the emergency police telephone number) calls via smartphones to be verified in video format in real time. If callers click on a link included in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Christmas tree decorated with Korean traditional handicrafts like hand fans, lucky bags and Santa Claus and Rudolph dressed in Korean robes has appeared at a local museum in Mexico. Papalote Children’s Museum in Mexico City has set up 10 different Christmas trees to celebrate Christmas Day, inviting foreign [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Marine litter has been transformed into artworks to share an important message about the seriousness of contaminating the environment. A series of sculptures were built in Busan’s tourist district of Haeundae using debris collected from the sea to raise public awareness about the risk posed by marine litter and the severity of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea’s state overseas aid agency, announced that it has built vocational training centers for women in Kogon, Qorako’l, and Shofirkon in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara region. These three districts have been known to struggle with high unemployment among women and have also been hit [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – With the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus spreading rapidly worldwide, many daycare centers are canceling Christmas events, celebrating the holidays ‘without Santa Claus’. A daycare center in Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul recently canceled a Santa Claus event, which used to be an annual tradition in which employees or volunteers [...]