JEJU, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Potential Chinese tourists to the southern resort island of Jeju have positive views towards the island’s quarantine policy against the coronavirus, a local think tank said Wednesday. The Jeju Research Institute conducted a survey of 754 Chinese nationals who gave high marks to Jeju’s counter-pandemic policy with an average [...]
JEJU/CHANGWON, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Cherry blossoms on the southern resort island of Jeju have just bloomed this year, about a week faster than in the previous years, the local weather agency said Thursday. The Jeju Provincial Meteorological Administration said hotter than normal temperatures on the island this month appear to have advanced the [...]
JEJU, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2021 Jeju Fire Festival will be broadcast online using cutting-edge technology. Jeju City in the southern resort island of Jeju announced Wednesday that a live broadcast of the festival’s most popular event, the Saebyeol Orum Torching, will take place online. The Jeju Fire Festival embodies the tradition of Jeju’s [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to transfer surplus renewable energy generated on Jeju Island to the mainland as it is becoming a major cause of frequent arbitrary shutdown of power generators. Jeju’s output of renewable energy jumped in proportion from 9.3 percent in 2016 to 16.2 percent last year. Rapid [...]
JEJU, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the residents of Jeju Island are opposed to a new international airport on the southern island, polls showed Thursday. However, residents of the town selected as the site of the airport were in favor of the project in separate surveys by the same pollsters. All [...]
JEJU, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Specially designed vehicles are gaining attention, clearing snow-covered roads across Mount Halla every time a snow storm sweeps over Jeju Island. The all-terrain Unimog UGE, a special truck developed by Mercedes-Benz, has been employed to clear snow in the region. Unimogs are custom-designed based on how they are going [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, China and Japan have agreed to accept a United Nations aviation agency’s proposal for an agreement critical for the safety of flights near Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju, the transport ministry said Monday. South Korean and Japanese air traffic controllers have been directing north-south flights and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Fire Safety Headquarters announced a plan to launch from next year the full-scale operation of a new traffic light system that is designed to turn green when an emergency vehicle approaches. The new traffic light system will be installed at 13 major intersections in downtown Jeju City, [...]
JEJU, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular vacation destination, said Monday it expects the demand for offseason training to increase somewhat this winter as the island has remained relatively unscathed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeju Province expects Korean sports teams to opt not to go overseas [...]
JEJU, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju Island, which is famous for strong winds, plans to launch a project that uses wind power to produce electricity and then use the electricity to split water to produce hydrogen energy. This is an example of a so-called green hydrogen (P2G: Power to Gas) [...]