JEJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first for-profit hospital received the final approval from the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on Wednesday, putting an end to 16 years of controversy over the introduction of investor-owned medical institutions. Jeju Gov. Won Hee-ryong announced the approval of the Greenland International Hospital as a for-profit hospital on [...]
JEJU, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The small town of Jocheon-eup on Jeju Island that holds the Dongbaek-dongsan wetlands has been accredited as a Wetland City under the Ramsar Convention. The Ministry of Environment and Jeju City announced on Thursday that Jeju City’s Jocheon-eup, along with the South Korean towns of Suncheon, Changnyeong-gun, and Inje-gun, [...]
JEJU, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A smart MICE industrial complex will be built in Jeju Island’s Seogwipo Innovation City. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced on Thursday that Jeju Island’s “reputation as an international tourist attraction thanks to convenient traffic, accommodations, and abundant tourist resources make it a perfect spot for [...]
JEJU/SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Wednesday to give 339 Yemeni asylum seekers humanitarian stay permits in South Korea, the justice ministry said. The office also rejected refuge applications from 34 Yemenis without issuing stay permits for them and deferred decisions on 85 others, the [...]
JEJU, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — TMONET, a service developer and provider of electronic payment systems, announced yesterday that it was renovating a 3,000-square meter underground bunker no longer in use in Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo on Jeju Island to create an art installation exhibition featuring recreated works originally by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. The exhibition, scheduled [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — After President Moon Jae-in’s appearance at the Korea International Fleet Review taking place on Jeju Island, the president also took time to visit the nearby Gangjeong Village on the southern coast of the island, the subject of various controversies surrounding the construction of the Jeju Naval Base. According to [...]
JEJU, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Friday to give 23 Yemeni asylum seekers humanitarian stay permits in South Korea, although it rejected their applications for official refugee status. The 23 were among hundreds of Yemenis who arrived on Jeju earlier this year and applied for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – At least 4 out of 10 South Korean students would have chosen to study abroad had it not been for the international schools situated within the Jeju Global Education City (JGEC). According to a survey conducted by the Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC) between December 2017 and January 2018, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that people who live in areas with high fine dust levels have pulmonary functions that are significantly lower than normal. Seoulites were found to 3.48 percent lower lung capacity than their Jeju counterparts, who are exposed to less fine dust. This is according to [...]
JEJU, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — As the issue regarding the acceptance of Yemeni refugees continues to divide the nation, a discussion on how Christians should treat the matter was held yesterday at the Jeju Migrants Center. During the discussion, Abraham Lee, the executive director of The Refugee pNan, a refugee related NGO, said he [...]