JEJU, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hikers wanting to climb to the top of Mount Halla, South Korea’s highest mountain on Jeju Island, will be required to book a visit in advance, starting next month, Jeju’s provincial government said Saturday. The Jeju government said it plans to enforce a pilot reservation system for hikers and [...]
JEJU, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Competition to preempt natural water sources on Jeju Island in the domestic mineral water and beverage market is intensifying. Jeju’s clean groundwater has an unrivaled presence in the South Korean market. Samdasoo, volcanic bedrock water produced and bottled by the Jeju Province Development Corp. (JPDC), has maintained the top [...]
SEOUL/JEJU, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents and visitors to Jeju Island witnessed the warmest January weather on Tuesday, with the daily low on the southern resort island rising to an all-time high of 18.5 C, a weather agency said. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), some regions on the nation’s southern coast also [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A popular museum on Jeju Island has succeeded in growing cacao beans, a tropical crop used to make chocolate. A cacao tree growing inside a greenhouse at the Jeju Chocolate Museum produced the island’s first beans early this month. The museum explained that cacao beans turn red or yellow [...]
JEJU, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The 27th Seongsan Sunrise Festival will kick off next week on Jeju Island’s Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise) Peak, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the southern resort island’s most famous geographical features, organizers said Thursday. The annual Seongsan Sunrise Festival will take place around the Seongsan peak area [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of passengers handled this year by Jeju International Airport, the gateway to Jeju Island, topped 30 million for the first time, data showed Wednesday. A total of 30,057,300 passengers traveled through the airport on the southern resort island until Dec. 16 this year, according to the data [...]
JEJU, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent report has confirmed a significant increase in the number of single-person households on Jeju Island. According to a report released Thursday by the Jeju Branch of the Honam Regional Statistical Office, the number of single-person households on Jeju amounted to 73,250 last year, up 180.1 percent, or [...]
JEJU, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The era of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has opened for Jeju island. On Tuesday morning, SM JEJU LNG No.1, a cargo ship carrying LNG, finally docked at the Korea Gas Corporation’s LNG Receiving Terminal in Jeju’s Aewol Port. The ship was made available on September 18 to exclusively transport LNG [...]
JEJU, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Province introduced a standard model of the “Jeju haenyeo,” or female divers from Jeju Island, to unify various designs and depictions of the national cultural heritage. The model resembles a woman in her 30s to 40s, carrying traditional equipment used for diving, such as mulsojungi (a diver’s suit), [...]
JEJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Claiming that endangered species inhabit the site of the Bijarim Road expansion project on Jeju Island, which was suspended due to controversy over damage to a redwood forest more than two months ago, the government urged Jeju to stop construction work, investigate the situation and come up with countermeasures. [...]