CHUNCHEON, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon city’s With Eco, a plogging program where participants pick up trash as they jog, begins this Saturday. Plogging combines the terms ‘plocka upp’, a Swedish expression for picking up grains, and ‘jogging’. The program first began in Sweden in 2016, spreading worldwide as a meaningful event that can [...]
CHUNCHEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Abandoned dogs in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, living under poor conditions, have found a new home. The city opened a new animal shelter Wednesday that was created at a cost of about 2 billion won (US$1.62 million), including state funds, provincial funds and municipal funds, to improve animal welfare. The [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2019 Chuncheon World Leisure Sports Festival, which kicks off on September 6, will also host an Agility Festival for pets. Animals and Humans, a South Korean animal welfare agency, will hold the Agility Festival alongside various pet-related events at Chuncheon Songam Sports Town on September 7 and 8. [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon’s Legoland project is finally recovering from various business obstacles and gaining speed towards completion as the Gangwon Jungdo-developments Corp. (GJC), an investment arm of the Gangwon Province, and STX Construction Co. managed to agree on the issue of proceeding with the construction project. According to Gangwon Province on [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangwon Province is deeply concerned about paying 60 billion won (US$50.7 million) to invest in Chuncheon Legoland, as civic groups are adding pressure on the Provincial Council to reconsider the project. “The Legoland project, ensuing for the last eight years, is what civil society is strongly calling on to [...]
CHUNCHEON, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Mime Festival, a representative festival in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, will be held from May 26 to June 2 in Songam Sports Town and Jungangno. This year, in particular, 51 teams from 13 countries and some 500 people will give various performances to mark the 30th anniversary of the [...]
CHUNCHEON, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon in Gangwon Province has been making progress by fixing bicycles left unattended in public places and providing them as a means of transportation for young people. The city has been working on a project to donate its neglected bicycles since 2013. The project involves collecting bicycles left unattended [...]
CHUNCHEON, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Legoland Chuncheon theme park is finally speeding up towards completion after seven years of stalemate, but there are still concerns over the choice of a construction firm, the date of the grand opening, and financing. “If Merlin Entertainments decides not to accept STX as partner, then Gangwon Province [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — British-based Merlin Entertainments, the operator of Legoland, recently announced an agreement with South Korea’s Gangwon provincial government on the construction of the world’s 10th Legoland in the province. Legoland Korea will be built on the island of Hajungdo in Chuncheon, 85 kilometers east of Seoul, to open by 2022, [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Chuncheon in Gangwon Province announced on January 9 that it will create a forest to prevent air pollution caused increasing fine dust emissions. The forest will be created on the site of a shuttered U.S. military base downtown. Only 15 hectares of the base will be [...]