SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of small businesses shutting down on South Korea’s Jeju Island has increased significantly in recent years, according to local authorities. Data from the Jeju Credit Guarantee Foundation shows a steady uptick in business closures among its clients: 1,706 in 2023, 965 in 2022, 723 in 2021, and 618 [...]
JEJU, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A troubling phenomenon known as sea desertification, where ocean floors become devoid of marine life, is intensifying in waters surrounding South Korea’s Jeju Island, according to a recent survey. The 2023 Village Fishery Resource and Ecological Environment Report by the Jeju Marine and Fisheries Research Institute revealed severe sea desertification [...]
JEJU, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – For the next few weeks, visitors to the Haenyeo Museum on the resort island of Jeju can glimpse into the vanishing world of the region’s celebrated free-diving women through the lens of Peter Ashley Lee, a 42-year-old photographer. Lee’s exhibition, “The Last Mermaid,” which opened on June 4 and runs [...]
JEJU, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a distressing display, an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was observed carrying her dead newborn calf and attempting to revive it by pushing it above the water’s surface off the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea. According to the documentary group Docu Jeju and researchers from Jeju National University, the grieving [...]
JEJU, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – On the scenic vacation of island of Jeju, South Korea, an innovative initiative is using drones to assist with beach cleanups and a range of public services, highlighting the region’s embrace of cutting-edge technologies. According to Jeju provincial authorities, a special project will be launched on the islands of Chagwido [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., a defense electronics and ICT solutions unit under Hanwha Group, said Monday it will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a new space center on South Korea’s southern island of Jeju. The Jeju Hanwha Space Center, set to be built at Hawon Techno Campus in southern Jeju, [...]
JEJU, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Golf courses on Jeju Island, South Korea, which thrived during the Covid-19 pandemic, are now grappling with a significant decrease in the number of visitors, according to data released by the Jeju Provincial Government on April 16. After surpassing the 2 million mark in 2019 with 2.09 million visitors, Jeju’s [...]
JEJU, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities on Jeju Island in South Korea have removed stone piles erected by hikers near the crater lake on Geum Oreum, a volcanic cone, to safeguard the habitats of amphibians such as snails that reside there, officials said on April 14. The Jeju Provincial Government announced that it had finished [...]
JEJU, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The aromatic white blossoms of Jeju’s citrus trees are expected to burst into bloom next month, painting the island’s southern coastal towns with their distinctive floral fragrance. According to projections released On April 5 by the Rural Development Administration, the citrus flowers should reach full bloom in early May, around [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. State Department has officially referred to the Jeju April 3rd Incident, a dark chapter in South Korea’s history, as a “tragic event” that “should not be forgotten.” This statement marks a significant shift as the United States, which governed the southern part of the Korean Peninsula from September [...]