INCHEON, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The western port city of Incheon will start operating a new digital signboard system to inform bus drivers whether passengers are waiting at bus stops from late this month. If passengers push a button installed at bus stops, the digital signboard displays a notice text saying ‘passengers are on [...]
INCHEON, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A beautiful event is going viral in which a group of citizens voluntarily worked together to remove liquor bottles that fell on the road from a truck. Last Monday afternoon, dozens of soju (distilled liquor) boxes loaded in a 1-ton truck fell on the road when the truck turned [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul citizens choose to move to neighboring Incheon and Gyeonggi Province not just to find cheap, affordable homes but to move to a new, quality residences, a survey showed Thursday. The Seoul Institute conducted a survey of 2,085 residents in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province who had moved in [...]
INCHEON, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education said Thursday it will launch a virtual reality (VR)-based safety education program for students living on islands during the period from April to November of this year. The education will be offered to groups of fifth and sixth-grade students and middle and [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will install large artificial fish reefs in its sea area as part of efforts to cultivate fishery resources as well as to protect the marine environment. After detailed design and consultation with authorities for use of the sea area, the city government [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A car ferry set sail from South Korea’s western port of Incheon to the country’s southern resort island of Jeju on Friday in the resumption of the route in more than seven years following the deadly sinking of the Sewol ferry. The 27,000-ton Beyond Trust was to arrive at [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The largest ‘blood donation house’ in the region has opened in Songdo International City, Incheon, welcome news when the coronavirus pandemic is leaving blood supplies dangerously low. The Songdo Center, the fifth blood donation facility in the city, sits on the fifth floor of Triple Street D-dong, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu [...]
INCHEON, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first liquid natural gas (LNG)-powered eco-friendly tugboat has made its first call at the port of Incheon. The Incheon Port Authority (IPA) said Monday that the LNG-powered 310-ton tugboat Songdo had started operations at the port of Incheon, west of Seoul. The tugboat was developed as part [...]
INCHEON, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of bars in the western port city of Incheon on Monday postponed plans to reopen their doors in defiance of a government order to shut down during COVID-19. An association of bar owners in Incheon, west of Seoul, said their businesses will remain closed till Friday while it [...]
INCHEON, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of bars in the western port city of Incheon will reopen their doors next week, defying a government order to shut down during COVID-19, an owners’ association said Thursday. Local authorities in the city, 40 kilometers west of Seoul, reimposed a sweeping ban on entertainment establishments, including bars [...]