HWASEONG, South Korea, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A fire broke out at an ink manufacturing factory south of Seoul on Friday, but no casualties were reported, officials said. The blaze occurred at 7:15 a.m. at the factory in Hwaseong, 45 kilometers south of Seoul, before firefighters brought the flames under control about an hour [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Rescue workers continued searching Tuesday for a worker still missing after a fire at a lithium battery plant in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, one of the worst chemical plant accidents in the country. At least 22 workers, mostly Chinese nationals, were killed in the fire that gutted lithium battery [...]
SUWON, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Thursday closed the country’s longest-standing cold case involving a series of brutal rapes and murders that began more than three decades ago. Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency concluded in a briefing that Lee Chun-jae killed 14 women, most of them rape-murder cases, and raped nine others, wrapping [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s worst serial murder case — the inspiration for the 2003 hit film “Memories of Murder” — took another dramatic turn when a 56-year-old man who is being probed as the key suspect admitted committing the crimes. Police said Wednesday Lee Choon-jae, who is serving life imprisonment for [...]
HWASEONG, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hwaseong Community Health Center in Gyeonggi Province launched a suicide prevention project called the ‘Green Life Village Project’ in 2010 by installing pesticide storage cabinets at homes located in agricultural areas. The cabinets were designed to prevent easy access to pesticides for individuals considering suicide. The 1.2-meter-high cabinets [...]
SUWON, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — According to projections, agricultural areas can expect pest population reductions of up to 5 to 30 percent this spring, depending on the type of insect. An agricultural research institute for Gyeonggi Province issued a prediction on January 31 that this year’s populations of cicadas (30 percent), beetles (20 percent), [...]
SUWON, Jan. 22 (Korea Biziwire) — The city of Suwon will kickstart a social media campaign with meal and beverage vouchers offered as prizes in a bid to gather data on the troublesome flocks of rooks that descend on the city during winter. On January 22, Suwon announced that residents of Osan, Yongin and Hwaseong [...]
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 [...]
SUWON, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean leader in solar energy generation said Wednesday that it will build what it claims to be the world’s largest floating solar power generation facility designed to follow the sun’s movement at two reservoirs in the city of Hwaseong, south of Seoul. Solkiss will set [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has launched its project to develop a new test bed for self-driving cars that will also include the development of new technologies to test autonomous cars, the government said Tuesday. The new test bed, called the K-city, will be built around the Korea Transportation Safety Authority’s existing [...]