SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam District office on Sunday announced the appointment of 39 global healthcare coordinators to offer translation services to foreign visitors seeking medical treatment in South Korea. The program, which began in 2011, aims to assist foreign patients visiting clinics in Gangnam District by providing dedicated medical translation services. [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading K-pop talent agencies, which are leading the golden age of the K-pop, are moving to new buildings in Gangbuk, the area north of the Han River. Hybe, the K-pop powerhouse behind BTS which was previously based in Samseong-dong in southern Seoul, moved to Yongsan District in [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The streets of Seoul’s bustling multicultural neighborhood of Itaewon looked abandoned Saturday night as the city government stopped clubs and bars from doing business earlier in the day following a recent cluster infection of the new coronavirus. Under the administrative order, all clubs, bars and other nightlife establishments are [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of South Koreans have signed a petition calling for the mandatory construction of residential flats for North Korean defectors in the ritzy district of Gangnam, southern Seoul, following a high-profile defector’s election in the constituency. In apparent derision of the Gangnam residents who elected Tae Ku-min [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Department Store, one of South Korea’s leading retailers, said Tuesday that its outlet in Gangnam, an affluent area in southern Seoul, reported 2 trillion won (US$1.7 billion) in accumulated sales last year. It marks the first time for a single department store branch to achieve the milestone, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A district in Seoul has introduced a sidewalk air pollution shelter for the first time in the country. Seoul’s Gangnam District on Wednesday installed a “fine dust free shelter” at the bus stop in front of the Galleria Department Store on a trial base. The facility removes more than [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam district is installing fine dust indicators at all of its elementary schools. The indicators will display four different colors – blue, green, yellow, and red – in accordance with the information received from the air monitoring facility at Gangnam District Office. Blue, for instance, will mean that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A middle-aged South Korean woman got married to and divorced from the same man twice, a rare occurrence in most parts of the world. But the couple’s on-again, off-again relationship may have been motivated by more than just their feelings for each other: The couple’s fake divorce appears to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has found that inhabitants of Seoul spend an average of 1.43 million won every month, and of the 25 districts in the South Korean capital, residents of Seocho-gu had the highest spending habits. A breakdown of the population by workplace found that those who worked in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In an attempt to stop the spread of secondhand smoke, the local government office of Gangnam-gu in Seoul has announced today that it is cracking down on people smoking in the streets. Gangnam-gu also said it was strengthening efforts to publicize the harms of smoking. Currently, there are a [...]