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 [...]
INCHEON, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The developer of an international business district in the city of Incheon plans to break ground on a new opera house project there in 2023, officials said Monday. The New Songdo International City LLC. (NSIC) plans to begin creating a general groundwork plan and feasibility study on the opera [...]
INCHEON, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An offshore solar power generation facility has been established to supply electric power to ships calling at the Port of Incheon. The Incheon Port Authority said Tuesday that it had spent a total of 2.8 billion won (US$2.5 million) to complete the eco-friendly power supply network project, and the [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – In the midst of an increase in the number of parcel delivery service users resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 outbreak, the collection of cardboard delivery boxes by resource collection facilities in the port city of Incheon has marked a sharp increase. The city-run Environmental Corporation of Incheon’s Songdo-based facility [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is building over Incheon city government’s response to complaints about wild dogs in the region by hiring subcontractors and paying them for the number of dogs captured. Last year, the port city’s eight counties and district authorities hired private companies to capture some 200 wild dogs in response [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon’s coastal areas and uninhabited islands that are found in surveillance system blind spots are being inundated with thousands of pieces of garbage. Green Korea United (GKU), a civic activist group, said Thursday that it had detected and collected 6,845 pieces of garbage such as plastic and styrofoam as [...]