SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of households that left the city to live in the countryside are satisfied with their decision, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs conducted a survey of 6,000 households that moved to the countryside between 2017 and 2021. The results showed that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal governments are competing to attract more people returning to farming and rural areas as part of efforts to address their population crisis. The South Chungcheong provincial government recently decided to set up a large smart farm complex by investing 43.6 billion won (US$33.7 million) by 2025 on reclaimed [...]
SUWON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers for rice farming results in a sharp increase in the emission of nitrous oxide, the major greenhouse gas contributor, a study indicated Wednesday. The Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services doubled the use of nitrogenous fertilizers compared to the standard fertilizing amount (9 kilograms of [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of urban households in South Korea that moved to provinces to take up farming rose last year, data showed Thursday, as more people searched for new job opportunities outside cities. The number of return-to-farm households came to 12,489 in 2020, up 9.3 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Rural Economic Institute reported Monday that 4 in 10 people living in cities wish to return to the countryside. The institute conducted a survey of 1,500 city residents, 41.4 percent of whom were willing to return to the countryside when appropriate, or after retirement, up by 6.8 [...]
GUNSAN, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Gunsan in North Jeolla Province revealed on Tuesday that it is using drones to patrol farmland to detect any cases of heat-related illness. Drones are being deployed in the summer to locate farmers who are exposed to dangers of heat-related illnesses. If there are seniors working [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Four died and nine were injured in a car accident in which a van overturned on a road in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, on Monday. Among the 16 passengers in the vehicle, nine of them were foreign workers. They were on a six-hour trip to Bonghwa, North Gyeongsang Province, to work [...]
GURYE/HADONG, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While most young jobseekers in South Korea unusually struggle to find well-paying positions at big name companies, such as Samsung, Jeong Kang-seok took a different approach upon graduating from college. The 25-year-old man, instead of sending out resumes, wanted to stay clear of city life and opted to sow [...]
CHANGWON, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Farmland near Junam Reservoir in the city of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, a popular destination for migratory birds, will turn into a pesticide-free farming complex that helps both the birds and the environment. Changwon, the Morning of Junam, a farming association, and the Machangjin Federation for Environmental Movement signed [...]
SUWON, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones are expected to soon become the new ‘right hand’ of farming in South Korea. The Gyeonggi-do Agricultural Research & Extension Services invited 100 agricultural experts and farmers on Wednesday to conduct a demonstration of rice cropping using drones. The institution is also responsible for studying and educating farmers [...]