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 [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Two Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphins, which were captured illegally in the waters near Jeju in 2009 and made to perform at dolphin shows, will be transported to Jeju from Seoul to receive captivity-to-wild training before they get released into the sea. According to the Korean Animal Welfare Association, two dolphins, [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — While there are now 665,000 EVs in operation around the world, Korea is only home to about 3,000, representing a miniscule 0.45 percent of the global total in 2014, according to a report by IEA and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Although the Korean government is planning [...]
Seogwipo, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A festival for bracken fern, a popular Korean delicacy known locally as gosari, will be held at Namjorobyeon in Jeju on May 2 and 3. The 20th Jeju Gosari Festival offers visitors the chance to gather bracken with helpers’ instruction, learn how to cook bracken dishes and walk along [...]
JEJU, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Special Self-governing Provincial Council is close to passing a revised bill which limits vast development in the central mountainous areas of Jeju Island. According to the revised bill, development will be restricted in areas designated as first and second level groundwater conservation areas and landscape conservation areas. However, development [...]
JEJU, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — It isn’t too far fetched to say that Jeju Island‘s attempt at promoting itself as a test bed for the newly-rising electric vehicle (EV) industry has caught on, at least in terms of demonstrating the zeal to realize its ambitious plans. The second International Electric Vehicle Expo (IEVE) on the [...]