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. [...]
JEJU, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Construction companies are facing the consequences of the decline in the real estate market on Jeju Island, as an increasing number of houses are sitting empty without buyers. Jeju Province announced on Monday that as many as 1,271 residences were left unsold this year. The number of unsold homes [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju provincial government on Wednesday nullified the business license of a Chinese-owned medical center as South Korea’s first for-profit hospital as it missed the deadline for the launch of its operation. The Shanghai-based Greenland Group recently requested an extension of the March 4 deadline for the opening of [...]