SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Expressway Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will expand the application of the ‘rest-mileage’ system introduced to encourage truckers to observe rest hours to 180 sites on eight routes. The system was introduced in May last year as a way to prevent drowsy driving among truckers [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans are pioneering the use of vacant land near expressways to start agricultural businesses. The Korea Expressway Corp. (KEC) will distribute 3,800㎡ of land near Daejeon Southern Ring Expressway’s Annyeong Tollgate to student members of the Agricultural Startup Committee at Chungnam National University to develop agricultural startups. [...]
NAMWON, South Korea, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Expressway Corporation’s South Jeolla office introduced Thursday a wrong-way driving preventive system at one of its toll gates on the Gwangju-Daegu Expressway (Namwon), to more effectively prevent accidents that can result from drivers heading mistakenly, or deliberately, in the opposite direction. According to officials, wrong-way [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to build a network of smart expressways that will include new sections of road that charge electric vehicles as they go. Under the envisioned plan, the government will also build an additional 1,000 kilometers of expressway, extending the total length in the [...]
SEJONG, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – At a public hearing held on July 13 at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) announced the First National Road Master Plan which includes details related to the construction and maintenance of national highway systems. A national road master plan [...]
SEJONG, Jan.8 (Korea Bizwire) – With the establishment of ‘Rest Areas for Drowsiness’ on highways and national routes, the death toll from traffic accidents has dropped by more than 50 percent. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that the number of accidents that occurred between service areas decreased by 28 percent in 2015 [...]