SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of the nation’s most extensive canine training center will be held in concert with the retirement announcement of one of the fire department’s canine search and rescue veterans. Nine-year-old Andy first joined the force in 2012. Since then, he has racked up an impressive record of [...]
DAEGU, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2017 Daegu Tuning Car Racing Event opens on November 15 at the Korea Intelligent Automotive Parts Promotion Institute. The first iteration of the drag racing competition was held in 2014 in the hopes that the increased profile of motor sports would lead to increased consumer interest in car [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine years after its debut in 2008, Daegu, the first Asian city to host a body painting festival, welcomed 43 teams from 10 countries over the weekend to the Kolon Outdoor Music Hall. Attendees were treated to showcases of the many different artists present. Besides the main attraction, there [...]
DAEGU, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In two days, visitors will be walking among 98,500 square meters worth of cosmos flowers on Hajungdo Island, situated off the shore of Daegu in the Geumho River. The island and its flowers will be open to visitors until September 24. Organizers note that the flowers are expected to [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) – With the number of people living with pets on the rise, South Korea’s many regional governments have been jumping on the bandwagon of the pet industry to meet increasing demand for facilities and accommodations for pet use. According to the government’s data, pets are raised in more than 20 percent [...]
DAEGU, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of medical tourists from foreign countries are visiting Daegu, surpassing 20,000 for the first time last year. Daegu had nearly 21,000 overseas patients in 2016, up 62.5 percent compared to the year before, making the city the biggest medical tourism destination apart from the Seoul Capital [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Daegu Metropolitan City is set to become the first municipality in South Korea to adopt IoT technology for the management of a local water supply system, which will make visits from a meter reader no longer necessary, the municipal government announced yesterday. The municipal government is expected to invest 3.5 [...]
DAEGU, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As of March 31, the Daegu metropolitan government had received 1,813 applications for EV subsidies, already exceeding the 1,500 that the city had initially planned for 2017. The local government is providing up to 20 million won ($17,885) in official subsidies for electric car purchases this year in addition [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A new safety monitoring app which is set to be released tomorrow will help vulnerable members of society such as women and youth get out of dangerous situations by shaking their phone, Daegu Metropolitan City announced yesterday. The new crime reporting app was invented by both the Daegu city government [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – With more than a thousand alternative fuel vehicles sold in the last two months, the city of Daegu is continuing efforts to encourage its citizens to make use of electric cars. Of all 1,379 vehicles carmakers supplied to the southeastern city for private use, over 1,000 vehicles were sold, [...]