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) [...]
JEJU, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Drones carrying hydrogen fuel cells succeeded in a flight test, opening a new era of post-solar power energy. The provincial government of Jeju Island announced Monday that a hydrogen-powered drone successfully delivered emergency relief supplies to Mount Halla and performed safety monitoring of natural gas pipes and landfills. The [...]
JEJU, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A court on the southern island of Jeju on Tuesday upheld the local government’s revocation of the business license of what would have been the nation’s first for-profit hospital. The operator of the Greenland International Medical Center, owned by a Chinese real estate developer, filed a lawsuit in May 2019 [...]
JEJU, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Province is preparing for a new era of eco-friendly vehicles by announcing plans to ban the registration of all internal combustion engine vehicles in the southern resort island by 2030. Jeju, along with the Jeju Provincial Council, announced Monday a New Deal Plan for Jeju that includes directives [...]
JEJU, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of “haenyeo,” or female divers in Jeju Island have voiced strong opposition ahead of the Jeju Provincial Council’s deliberations on the motion of the environmental impact assessment for the offshore wind farm in Gujwa-eup. About one hundred haenyeos who are members of the Handong-Pyeongdae fishing village fraternities [...]
JEJU, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As the adoption of electric vehicles (EV) among the general public in South Korea is gaining ground, Jeju Island is striving to transform into an EV hub for the nation with the announcement of the development of a specialized platform for the EV maintenance and service sector. Jeju’s provincial government [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading car-sharing app operator SoCar has teamed up with a local vehicle tech startup to launch an autonomous car shuttle service on the resort island of Jeju, the company said Monday. The collaboration with RideFlux Inc., which officially began earlier in the day, marks the first time [...]