HAMYANG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – For A, a 31-year-old Vietnamese worker, home in South Korea is a dormitory that defies expectations. Arriving in March with 35 colleagues under a seasonal worker agreement between Hamyang County and Vietnam’s Nam Tra My district, A initially harbored concerns about potentially harsh working conditions. Those worries have since dissipated. [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Maison de la Corée at the International University Campus in Paris is turning into a promotional venue for South Korea. The dormitory is the latest building to be built on the campus. At the South Korea-France Summit in 2011, France made the first offer to improve housing conditions [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of students are looking for cheaper places to live as rising consumer prices are affecting rents of studio apartments near college campuses. Real estate brokerage app Dabang reported a 34-percent increase in the monthly rent of studio apartments near Ewha Womans University that are smaller than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean universities are taking various measures to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, including the separation of Chinese students deemed at risk of the viral disease, officials said Monday. A recent decision by Seoul National University (SNU) to assemble all Chinese students who have recently visited China [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Many university student residences located in Seoul have been called on to revise the so-called “no curfew” rule, which is required by students. The student council of Sookmyung Women’s University recently conducted a survey on dormitory rules. As a result, 88.7 percent of the respondents said they did not [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Gosiwon are dormitory-style residential facilities that house a large number of people in a cramped maze-like space. It is here that a series of fires have broken out recently, hurting scores and alarming officials and citizens alike. The small rooms are usually 5 square meters in size and are [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Maritime and Ocean University announced on Wednesday that it is building modular dormitories using shipping containers as a solution to its housing shortage, the first of its kind to be established in the country. Modular container houses take advantage of the durability, low cost, and rapid construction resulting [...]