SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting in July, a new hotel will offer guests the unique experience of staying on the Hangang Bridge in Seoul, with panoramic views of the Han River and the city’s skyline as the backdrop. The space, previously operating as a cafe, will be converted into what is being touted as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SOS Hotline phones installed on Han River bridges have served as a lifeline for those who are contemplating suicide. According to data compiled by the Life Insurance Philanthropy Foundation, the operator of the SOS Hotline, the number of calls for counseling through the hotline totaled 8,615 cases since it [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has removed the suicide prevention message written by late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and posted on the guardrails of the Hangang Bridge, one of the bridges connecting the north and south of Seoul. This move came after civil complaints were filed about the uncomfortable truth [...]
ANDONG, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, opened up a new bridge built with a traditional method using brushwood on Friday in the UNESCO World Heritage Andong Hahoe Folk Village, on the Nakdong River. The city had built a brushwood bridge in May of last year to celebrate the [...]
PAJU, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dokgae Bridge, located some 40 kilometers north of Seoul and eight kilometers south of the DMZ, connects the north and south banks of the Imjin River, near Imjingak. It was built in 1906 as a railway bridge, and as a set of two bridges – northbound and southbound. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of suicide attempts on the Han River that runs through Seoul has been increasing sharply since 2012, data showed Tuesday, raising demands that authorities bolster safety measures at bridges. According to the data compiled by Rep. Hong Chul-ho of the ruling Saenuri Party, around 1,400 people attempted [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to beautify its road facilities, the JinYoung National Territory Management Office (JNTMO) of the Busan Regional Construction Management Administration announced Wednesday that it will launch a program to renovate structures such as tunnels and bridges using a technique called “Story Doing”. Story doing is a concept [...]
CHUNCHEON, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s longest skywalk, the Soyang River Skywalk, is set to open on July 1. The city of Chuncheon invested 6.8 billion won to build the 156-meter skywalk, and began construction last December. The new skywalk is an observatory built on top of Uiamho Lake, located west of the city, [...]