SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A government panel on Wednesday withheld its decision over whether to approve a controversial project to build a cable car on a mountain range on the country’s east coast, officials said. The project calls for a 3.5-kilometer-long cable car system to be built in the southern region of Mount Seorak in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A government arbitration commission on Thursday ruled in favor of a county in Gangwon province that has been planning to set up a cable car on a popular mountain range near the nation’s eastern coast. In the ruling, the Central Administration Appeal Commission under the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights [...]
“The location chosen for the planned cable car project is confirmed to be the main habitat of endangered mountain goats, and there are several kinds of natural vegetation aged over 200 years old that need to be preserved.” “Yangyang County is driving the project in the name of regional economic vitalization, but it is only [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – As a surprising number of local governing bodies around Korea are currently developing or planning cable car installations in their district to boost tourism, hoping to follow in the footsteps of a successful project in Tongyeong, several environmental organizations are opposing the idea, saying that the attractions are not without [...]