SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The operator of a new resort complex under development on the country’s southern resort island of Jeju said Wednesday its theme park will open to the public next month, as it aims to become a world-leading tourist destination. The Shinhwa World resort complex will encompass high-end facilities along with [...]
JEJU, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island’s first queer festival organizing committee was launched on Monday in the hopes of tackling stereotypes and discrimination against sexual minorities to help create a safer environment, with plans to hold a queer festival later this year. The newly-formed committee dedicated to running a local queer culture festival on [...]
JEJU, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1653, 364 years ago, the first man to leave a written record about the Korean people set foot on Jeju Island soil. Hendrick Hamel and his crew of Dutchmen were on a merchant ship christened “De Sperwer” headed to Japan when fearsome waves and winds in the seas wrecked [...]
JEJU, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Apprehending criminals who secretly take illicit photographs on land is hard enough. Trying to prevent such crimes from happening in the sky is an even more difficult task. In the evening of August 4, a call was made to the Jeju Police Department reporting an unusual sight. Two drones were hovering [...]
JEJU, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The provincial government of Jeju Island said Wednesday it has decided to cull more than 124,000 chickens in the coming days to prevent the spread of avian influenza, which hit the southern resort island late last week. The provincial government has culled about 9,000 chickens since Friday, meaning about [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 220,000 foreigners are staying illegally in South Korea, according to government data released last month. According to the Korea Immigration Service, the number of foreign nationals currently residing in South Korea without a valid visa has been increasing for the past four months, with the latest figure [...]
JEJU, South Korea, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean startup company, Monolith, is establishing a 140,000-square-meter theme park on Jeju Island, mainly comprising of race tracks for gravity racing. Gravity racing, which has been around for over a century, is when the racers drive down a slope using nothing but gravitational momentum. Despite [...]
JEJU, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, the number of buildings on the island owned by foreign nationals is estimated at 3,310, with nearly 73 percent belonging to Chinese nationals. The aggregate area of land owned by foreign nationals was estimated at 466,621 square meters, accounting for about 1 [...]
JEJU, South Korea, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A ceremony was held here Thursday for the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facilities and distribution pipelines that aim to provide the southern resort island with a cleaner source of power by mid-2019. The work involves building two storage tanks and pipelines capable of distributing 120 tons of LNG per hour on 74,786 square meters of reclaimed [...]
JEJU, South Korea, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A spectacular display of light was spotted Thursday in the sky over South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju as residents on the island were dazzled for the second time this year by what is called the phenomenon of cloud iridescence. The Jeju Meteorological Administration said iridescent colors, or rainbow colors within clouds, appeared in the sky over the island for almost the entire noon hour. [...]