SEJONG, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island had the highest ratio of double income households last year among South Korea’s major cities and provinces, data showed Sunday. Among the island’s 158,000 households with married couples, the share of double income households stood at 60.4 percent or 96,000 households, the highest ratio among major regions [...]
JEJU, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreigner-only casino in the Jeju Dream Tower integrated resort, which opened on June 11 in the southern resort island of Jeju, recorded its first jackpot win only 12 days after opening. According to Lotte Tour Development, a Chinese man in his 40s who resides in South Korea won [...]
JEJU, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of so-called ‘urban wind ventilation forests’ will be planted across the city of Jeju on South Korea’s largest island of the same name. The provincial government of Jeju Island announced Thursday that it will invest 10 billion won (US$8.8 million) between now and 2022 to plant forests [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Wednesday that it plans to discontinue the use of disposable cups at four of its stores on the southern resort island of Jeju from next month. On Wednesday, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant signed a pilot program cooperation agreement with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular holiday destination, appears to be increasingly favored by locals as an alternative to overseas travel amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, a report indicated Thursday. The report released by the state-funded Korea Culture and Tourism Institute (KCTI) showed that domestic tourism to the southern [...]
JEJU, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A ban on unlicensed harvesting of marine life at night has invited strong protest from a group of hobbyists who called the move “unconstitutional.” Dozens of hobbyists and leisure industry workers held a press conference on the island earlier this week to demand the provincial government of Jeju scrap [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. are taking steps to bring about the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) commercialization era. V2G refers to the technology of using idle battery power by connecting electric vehicles to the power grid. The two companies signed a business agreement with Hyundai Capital Services Inc., an [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A uniquely designed farm on the southern resort island of Jeju will be designated as a cultural heritage. The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) announced that the Ctesiphon-style housing at Jeju’s St. Isidore Farm will be designated as a national cultural heritage. St. Isidore Farm, located in the mountainous region [...]
JEJU, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The southern island of Jeju recorded this year’s largest number of daily visitors on the Children’s Day holiday, industry officials said Thursday. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, 45,427 people visited the resort island Wednesday, up 139.4 percent from the 19,048 posted a year ago during the early stage [...]
JEJU, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The southern resort island of Jeju reported shrinking building area for the first annual quarter. The Jeju provincial government reported a 26.41 percent decrease in the province’s building permit area, which dropped from 480,392 square meters in the January-March period last year to 353,509 square meters for the same quarter [...]