SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has established a system to ensure the swift rescue of citizens attempting suicide on bridges spanning the Han River. The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Thursday that it had set up an integrated Han River Bridge CCTV control center within the Ttukseom Rescue [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Wednesday it opened a new bridge over the Han River and an underground expressway as part of efforts to ease chronic traffic congestion in the city’s southwestern area. The metropolitan government livestreamed an online opening ceremony of the World Cup Bridge and the Seobu [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SOS Hotline phones installed on Han River bridges have served as a lifeline for those who are contemplating suicide. According to data compiled by the Life Insurance Philanthropy Foundation, the operator of the SOS Hotline, the number of calls for counseling through the hotline totaled 8,615 cases since it [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Six more bridges straddling the Han River in Seoul will be lit at night from July, adding to the 20 bridges that already have nocturnal lighting features, the city government said Wednesday. The 26 bridges, including the newly fitted six — Achasan Bridge, Mapo Bridge, Cheonho Bridge, Dumo Bridge, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — On the banks of the Han River, the lifeline of Seoul, a middle-aged woman clung to a portrait of a young man and wept uncontrollably. “This ‘ajumma’ will reveal (the truth) no matter what,” she said, using the Korean term for a married and typically older woman. “Poor Jeong-min,” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Han River, which runs through Seoul, was declared officially frozen on Saturday for the first time in two years, the weather agency said, as South Korea has been gripped by a severe cold wave in recent days. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) announced that it has observed the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — An art installation shaped like a giant moon has been constructed on a dock on the Han River, the Seoul city government said Monday. The installation, named “Dalbitnodeul,” which means “Nodeul under the moonlight,” is made up of two circular metal structures, each 12 meters in diameter, adjacent to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the heavy rainfall in the Seoul Metropolitan Area on Monday, which flooded the entire Han River area, convenience stores in Hangang Park were found to have sustained no damage, thanks to the ‘floating house’ structure that enables them to float on top of the water as it rises. [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has removed the suicide prevention message written by late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and posted on the guardrails of the Hangang Bridge, one of the bridges connecting the north and south of Seoul. This move came after civil complaints were filed about the uncomfortable truth [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Hangang Project Headquarters announced on Wednesday that it has decided to donate agricultural crops such as canola, rye and barley cultivated at parks along the Han River to the Seoul Grand Park Zoo and social welfare organizations. The Hangang Project Headquarters have cultivated agricultural crops [...]