SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will provide a 60-minute standby time before towing away illegally parked shared electric scooters. The city announced a new towing policy for e-scooters on Tuesday. The number of reports on illegal parked e-scooters in the city reached 1,242 cases last July when the towing policy [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A crackdown on illegally parked vehicles will be strengthened starting next year in 16,700 school zones spread across the country. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Wednesday that it will strengthen its crackdown on illegal parking and resident reports in child protection zones next year following its [...]
ANSAN, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “Please yield to students in the school zone.” “No illegal parking! Please help the students feel safe in the school zone.” These are some of the slogans featured on stickers being posted on illegally parked cars in school zones in the city of Ansan in Gyeonggi Province. Ansan, in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – With a woman who blocked the entrance to an apartment parking lot in retaliation for receiving a parking sticker drawing a nationwide attention, foreigners living in Songdo, where the drama unfolded, have been relaying information on the whereabouts of the event. The whole thing started on Monday afternoon when a worker [...]
INCHEON, Nov.9 (Korea Bizwire) – A crackdown on illegal parking with the participation of the residents of Namgu, Incheon, is showing great results. Residents take pictures of illegally parked cars with their smartphones, and send them to the authorities. Once the pictures are sent, the owner of the car is fined. The local government announced [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Not long after the Ministry of Strategy and Finance of Korea has requested other ministries to secure the sources of non-tax revenues such as fines, a statistics revealed that almost a quarter of Seoul citizens have violated parking regulations at least once last year. As many as [...]
Incheon, Korea, August 8, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Smile Banner System announced on August 6 that it has developed a ‘Smartphone System to Protect Parking Rights of the Disabled’ which allows people to report illegally parked cars in spaces reserved for the handicapped through smartphones, and will be signing agreements with local governments for nationwide [...]