INCHEON, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s longest tourist-type monorail train service will kick off in Incheon, west of Seoul, this week, municipal officials said Monday. The operation of the Wolmi Sea Train will begin in the port city’s Wolmi Island district at 4 p.m. Tuesday after an opening ceremony to be attended by [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Tension grew in the South Korean port city of Incheon Friday, one day ahead of a local LGBT festival, as conservative civic groups are expected to hold opposition protests. The Incheon Queer Culture Festival is scheduled to take place in Incheon, just west of Seoul, Saturday with human rights [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Temperatures hit as high as 40°C last Saturday in Incheon where the 2019 Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival attracted thousands of fans to Songdo Pentapark. Some 39,200 people came to the festival that day, in addition to the more than 30,000 people who attended on Friday, when the festival began. [...]
INCHEON, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities in Incheon are retrieving food bowls for stray cats to control the soaring feline population on Mount Gyeyang. Officials from Incheon’s Gyeyang District said that they have been retrieving cat shelters and food bowls placed near the entrance to the mountain since Thursday. The District Office put [...]
INCHEON, Jul. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) over the first two quarters this year has dropped to less than half of the value recorded last year. The IFEZ Authority reported on Saturday that this year’s FDI reached US$164 million, which is only 33.4 percent of [...]
INCHEON, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean version of Silicon Valley will be created in Incheon. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Thursday that Tomorrow City complex in Incheon’s Songdo District, has been selected as the result of a public offering by local governments nationwide. To this end, the “2019 Start-up Park Creation [...]
INCHEON, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Islands off South Korea’s west coast have been designated as National Geoparks of Korea. They include the 51-square-kilometer Baengnyeong Island, 13-square-kilometer Daecheong Island, and 3-square-kilometer Socheong Island. There are 10 unique geological sites in the parks, including Baengyeong’s Dumujin, Socheong’s Bunbawi Rock, and Daecheong’s Nongyeo Beach. The islands have [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Dream Island” project, a large-scale tourism and leisure complex that will be built on reclaimed land within Yeongjong Island located in Incheon, appears to be nearing reality. At Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Monday, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries held a briefing session on the start of [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. has been selected to clean up pollution at a U.S. military base in Incheon, west of Seoul, the defense ministry said Friday. The environment ministry found last year that soil and groundwater inside the Camp Market in Bupyeong, Incheon, were contaminated with chemicals like [...]
INCHEON, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As the South Korean Ministry of Defense is taking steps to decontaminate Camp Market, a U.S. Army base located in Incheon’s Bupyeong District that is polluted with dioxins, civil groups say the costs should be borne by the United States Forces Korea (USFK). Almost 50 civil groups from Incheon [...]