SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities will intensively deploy helicopters to battle the deadly wildfires that have engulfed the southeastern county of Sancheong for the fourth consecutive day Monday, as the blaze is spreading to the adjacent Hadong County, officials said. As many as 36 helicopters were deployed to the two counties in South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The small southern county of Hadong in South Gyeongsang Province started to enforce the third-highest level of social distancing Saturday to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus. The provincial government said it raised social distancing by one notch to Level 2 under the new five-tier social distancing [...]
HADONG, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hadong, a county in South Gyeongsang Province, home to the beautiful Mount Jiri, is a being established as a shrine of environmental arts surrounded by nature. The 2019 Jirisan International Arts Festa (JIIAF) will be held in Hadong from October 8. Every year, the county has invited world-renowned environmental [...]
ROME, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday designated a site in Hadong, a town in South Korea’s South Gyeongsang Province, as one of its world agricultural heritage systems in recognition of the site’s traditional tea-growing method that maintains biodiversity. At a ceremony to mark the designation of Globally [...]
HADONG, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The town of Hadong in southeastern South Korea will sell canned fresh mountain air in a tie-up with a Canadian company amid growing concerns about air pollution, municipality officials said Wednesday. The municipality said it will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark the dedication of a plant on [...]
HADONG, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Hadong is an area in Gyeonggi Province famous as the first tea plantation site in Korea. Despite modern methods including the use of machines for processing, Hadong also produces tea using traditional methods, which results in higher-grade teas. This year’s festival, which marks its 20th anniversary, will take place from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A casual angler found a complete skeleton of a small carnivorous dinosaur with the whole body length of less than 30 centimeters. On November 24, the dinosaur fossil was discovered in a Mesozoic geologic formation in Hadong, South Gyeongsang Province, 120 kilometers west of Busan. It remains to be [...]