SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Thursday to make sweeping improvements to commuter transport in the Seoul metropolitan area by extending express rail networks and adding new bus lanes and double-decker electric buses. Yoon made the remark during a government-public debate on people’s livelihood issues, the sixth in a series, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A salaried worker, who died in 2018 after traveling about 1,000 kilometers every week between home and work for about six months, has been recognized as a victim of an industrial accident by a local court, judicial sources said Monday. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of the [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey conducted by Statistics Korea showed commuters in Seoul spend an average of around 40 minutes to get to work or school, adding up to a total of nearly an hour and a half of travel every day. Nearly 1.5 million people commute into Seoul from outside [...]