PYEONGTAEK, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, will get its first five-star hotel with a global brand in Pyeongtaek by 2022, the city government announced on Thursday. According to the municipality of Pyeongtaek, about 70 kilometers south of Seoul, the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), a global hotel company, plans to build [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi provincial government imposed a “no-assembly” order for clubs and entertainment facilities Sunday after a recent spike in coronavirus cases linked to clubs and bars in Seoul’s Itaewon district put health authorities on alert. Gov. Lee Jae-myung of the province surrounding Seoul said the measure will be effective [...]
SUWON, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province announced Sunday that more than 1,500 abandoned dogs found new families after receiving protection and training at the Nanum Dog Protection Center. The news comes six years and six months after the center’s first dog was adopted in Nov. 2013, and 14 months after the 1,000th dog [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, announced Tuesday it will pay 100,000 won (US$79.85) per person to all its residents in April to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Gyeonggi will be the first local government in South Korea to provide universal “anti-disaster basic income,” while a [...]
GOYANG, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — With the massive spread of the new coronavirus expected to alter life as we know it for the foreseeable future, local governments in Gyeonggi Province are pushing for various measures to support and promote consumption. The city of Goyang will temporarily hire local students and children of small business [...]
SUWON, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly two thirds of hospital patients at the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center (GPMC) have agreed to have their surgical procedures recorded using closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras. According to statistics released by Gyeonggi Province, out of 4,239 surgeries performed at six hospitals operating under the GPMC between October 2018 and [...]
SUWON, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The local government of Gyeonggi Province said Tuesday it will ban cities and counties from holding balloon-flying events starting at the end of this year, due to concerns about environmental harm caused by balloons. People often fly balloons at the year-end or in the new year to express their [...]
SUWON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new “Doctor Helicopter” service for emergency medical procedures in Gyeonggi Province, which began operations on September 4, has been a huge contributor to saving precious lives. The so-called “Doctor Helicopter” was deployed on 19 of the 39 days since the service was launched. It achieved an 89.5 percent [...]
ANSAN, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Abandoned quarries in Gyeonggi Province, which have been treated as eyesores for leaving mountainsides bare, are drawing public attention as they have been transformed into tourist destinations. The former quarry on Mount Cheonju in Pocheon, was reborn as Pocheon Art Valley and became the city’s leading tourist destination. Meanwhile, [...]
SUWON, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province, in tandem with the Gyeonggi Tourism Organization and Korea Railroad Corporation, announced that they will hold a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Korea photo exhibition on a DMZ train operating between Yongsan and Dorasan stations. This open-run exhibition will put on display rare photos of North and South Korea [...]