GWANGJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gwangju job project, intended to create thousands of new low-paying jobs to help fight unemployment in provincial areas, appears to have hit a snag in the face of resistance from laborers, officials said Wednesday. The project calls for Hyundai Motor to build a new assembly plant in Gwangju, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is deepening as civil groups plan to hold the first Queer Culture Festival in Gwangju on October 21. The Gwangju Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee and 32 other civil groups from Gwangju and South Jeolla Province said on Thursday that “any kind of discrimination and hate towards sexual [...]
GWANGJU, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Two contradicting demands are being made by Gwangju residents, who are currently divided over a group of ducks that are currently living in a lake park in the southwestern city. Citizens of the area are focusing their attention on the decision to be made by the municipality to either [...]
GWANGJU, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Buk-gu municipality in the city of Gwangju announced plans yesterday to transform the entire neighborhood of Jasan-ro, 15 beon-gil in Sinan-dong to feature small but charming village streets, the likes of alleyways found in the popular region of Provence in the south of France. Although the floating population [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A new administrative service that issues official civil documents for citizens, allowing them to “drive through”, is garnering attention. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety introduced yesterday the drive-through civil center currently under operation in Gwangju’s Cheomdan 2-dong district office in Gwangsan-gu as an example of innovation in [...]
GWANGJU, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An apartment complex in Dong-gu, Gwangju is gaining national attention after residents made the decision to continue employing a security guard by making use of electricity bill savings resulting from the installation of new solar panels to cover his salary. The Ullim 2 Apartments was designated most recently as [...]
GWANGJU, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Tomorrow, the southwestern Gwangju Metropolitan Area will launch its 13th reading marathon. Open to all participants, the “finish line” has been marked as November 6. The seven-month marathon will be divided into seven segments in order of increased difficulty: the turtle (3km), the crocodile (5km), the rabbit (10km), the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday selected the venues that will host matches for the top Asian football tournament in the event that the country wins its bid to stage the event in 2023. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said eight cities — Suwon, Goyang, Hwaseong, Cheonan, Jeonju, Gwangju, Busan and [...]
GWANGJU, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Global electric power experts and engineers gathered in South Korea on Wednesday to exchange views on the future of the power industry at an exhibition hosted by the state-run Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). The Bitgaram International Exposition of Electric Power Technology (BIXPO) kicked off its three-day run in [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo District in the city of Gwangju announced on Thursday it has introduced street cleaning robots in the community that can also be operated by remote control. The move by district officials to trial street-sweeping robots comes with the community seeking ways to effectively deal with the issue of illegal [...]