SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The provincial government of Jeju Island, South Korea’s most popular vacation destination, said Monday it will extend its social distancing campaign for another two weeks to completely stem the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, contrary to the central government’s decision to relax its social distancing rules this week. The government [...]
JEJU, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A larger-than-projected number of tourists visited South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju during the so-called golden holiday, keeping health authorities on alert amid the coronavirus pandemic. The number of visitors to Jeju between April 30 and May 2 totaled 138,802, roughly 30 percent more than a 106,905 forecast, [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island is working with the private sector to launch a drone delivery service to distribute protective masks to residents living on remote islands without a proper mask supplier. Jeju Province and Doosan Mobility Innovation distributed 1,200 protective masks to residents on Gapa, Mara, and Biyang islands on Thursday [...]
JEJU, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The operation of the Jeju International Airport’s walk-thru testing center, which is being operated to prevent the inflow of new coronavirus cases, is being shared with cities around the world. The Jeju provincial government said Thursday it will regularly post its own COVID-19 response policy on the United Cities [...]
JEJU, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Koreans are essentially banned from travelling overseas due to the coronavirus outbreak, the southern island of Jeju is becoming an increasingly popular honeymoon destination. As more newlyweds are considering spending time on Jeju, local hotels are scrambling to offer wedding packages. The Shilla Jeju’s April sales for [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of a local village on Jeju Island, popular for its spring flowers, are concerned due to the influx of tourists despite the ‘social distancing’ movement to prevent further spread of the coronavirus. Residents, concerned over an increasing number of tourists, have decided to plow up canola flowers earlier [...]
JEJU, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The population of roe deer on Jeju Island is set for recovery following recent bans on poaching. The Jeju provincial government reported that there were about 4,400 roe deer on the island as of last year, which was a 15.8 percent increase over the previous year. Roe deer had [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Defective security cameras and lax discipline led to a Navy unit on the southern island of Jeju failing to detect civic activists intruding into its compound earlier this month, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, promising to strongly reprimand the officers responsible. On March 7, four activists who [...]
JEJU, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — All international flights to South Korea’s southernmost resort island of Jeju came to a halt on Saturday as foreign airlines suspended their direct routes to the island over coronavirus concerns. According to Jeju International Airport, Malaysia’s AirAsia canceled its 8 a.m. flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jeju, a day [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The first blossoming of azaleas this spring was observed on the southern island of Jeju last week, nearly one month earlier than average due to warmer weather, the state weather agency said Tuesday. The observation was made on March 3, the earliest since the nation began to track the [...]