SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The “customary” offering of travel expenses for spouses accompanying participating in the overseas travel of local government heads is finally diminishing. According to Wirye Citizens’ Solidarity, an NGO monitoring the budget spending of local governments, only Jeju Special Self-governing Province and its provincial council are currently covering travel expenses [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Lawmakers have proposed to protect Jeju’s Gotjawal primitive forest, which is being destroyed by reckless development on the tourist island. Kim Woo-nam, a lawmaker from Jeju, presented a revised bill for the Special Act on the Establishment of Jeju Special Self-governing Province and the Development of Free International City to [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Special Self-governing Province was ranked No. 1 in terms of 2012 growth rate among 16 provinces and metropolitan cities. According to data on gross regional domestic products by the National Statistical Office on July 24, the GDP of Jeju Province was 12,706.8 billion won(US$12.4 billion), up 6.1 percent from [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – It turned out that Jeju Special Self-governing Province’s unique policy of “birth card” service for newborn babies has been working quite well. On May 23, according to the Jeju Provincial government, the number of applications for birth cards, issued by the city administrators and district offices, has exceeded 3,000 [...]