JEJU, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first cherry blossom festival of the year kicked off on Jeju Island Friday, with visitors hailing from around the country and overseas gathering to celebrate the origin of the globally cherished flower. The 25th “Jeju Cherry Blossom Festival” officially launched at Jeonnong-ro, about 3.3 kilometers east of [...]
SEJONG, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s two budget carriers have been slapped with 600 million won (US$524,000) in fines each for breaching flight safety regulations, the transportation ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport imposed the highest financial penalty on Jeju Air Co., owned by the mid-sized retailer Aekyung Group, [...]
JEJU, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Gapado, a small island off the southwest coast of Jeju Island, is in the limelight with its new status as a ‘carbon free island’. There are no telephone poles on Gapado. All 132 poles were removed, with only few that are required to maintain telephone service remaining. The electricity [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government on Friday gave approval for the opening of a foreign-owned for-profit hospital on Jeju Island, which can lead to diversification in the country’s medical service sector. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, it approved the request made by the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province for [...]
JEJU, Dec.10 (Korea Bizwire) – Accommodation facilities owned by foreigners are increasing on Jeju Island, where more than 10 million tourists from Korea and abroad visit every year. According to the local government, 20 properties with a total of 1,976 rooms were owned by foreigners as of September. Among Jeju’s total of 321 properties and [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will build a second airport on the country’s southern resort island of Jeju to better handle a spike in passenger traffic, the government said Tuesday. The growing popularity of Jeju Island off South Korea’s southern coast and a sharp surge in demand for low cost carrier flights [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Wealthy Chinese investors are eyeing real estate markets in Japan and Korea. According to the China Daily, big Chinese players are shifting their investment targets from Australia and the United States to Japan and Korea. Jeju Island in Korea and big cities in Japan like Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya are [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A theme park where Hallyu tourists can enjoy K-pop at a hologram concert hall will be established on Jeju Island. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced that they would be opening a digital theme park called ‘Play K-pop’ with NIK, a company that invests in content and [...]
JEJU, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Jumping on the bandwagon of easy to obtain driver’s licenses, Chinese citizens are flocking to Korea to get their driving permits. With the resorts and tourist attractions on Jeju Island becoming particularly popular, more than 900 licenses have been issued to Chinese “tourists” who mix sightseeing with driving lessons. According [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Two Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphins, Taesan and Boksoon, who returned to their hometown sea in front of Jeju Island from Seoul Grand Park, are smoothly adopting themselves to the new environment, according to the National Fisheries Research & Development Institute. They are now in an enclosing net for their initial captivity-to-wild [...]