Jeju, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – After ten days, two Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins that were released in their natural habitat, Taesan (male, 20) and Boksoon (female, 17), were spotted in a herd of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins. According to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and the Whale lab, Taesan and Boksoon were seen with 40 [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Lawmakers have proposed to protect Jeju’s Gotjawal primitive forest, which is being destroyed by reckless development on the tourist island. Kim Woo-nam, a lawmaker from Jeju, presented a revised bill for the Special Act on the Establishment of Jeju Special Self-governing Province and the Development of Free International City to [...]
JEJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju pork farms will be provided with quality breeding pigs from Canada, as a livestock agency in Jeju will import 150 pigs from Canadian farms, individually selected by its workers. The agency will start to breed them to provide Jeju pig farms with quality pigs. The selected Landrace, Yorkshire [...]
JEJU, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Fairy pitta bird that crashed into a building’s window in Jeju on May 15 has been released back into the wild. A wildlife rescue team at Jeju University had been treating injuries to its head and legs, and released the healed bird into a forest in Jeju on [...]
JEJU, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Racing Authority’s ‘Lets Run Farm’ in Jeju is maintaining the island’s legacy as Korea’s leading horse-breeding area, in a tradition that goes back more than 1000 years. Lets Run Farm, which houses a vast field of 1,000㎡ for horseracing, five indoor race facilities, horse swimming pools, nurturing [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Amidst controversy over the extent of contributions to the local economy by Jeju’s casino industry despite skyrocketing guests and revenues, the provincial government of the island has begun to prepare methods to expand tax revenues from the gambling industry. Jeju Self-Governing Province announced on May 11 that it had launched a [...]
SEJONG, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean seabed is turning grey with calcium compounds, as marine algae and other plant life are disappearing. This sea desertification in Korea was first reported in 1992 in the waters off Jeju Island. The effects of desertification were also seen on the Gyeongbuk coast in 1996, and now [...]
JEJU, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of foreign companies are buying casinos in Jeju, as 4 out of 8 casinos have been taken over or are being taken over by foreign entities in the past year. At the end of 2014, Grand Express Korea, a joint corporation established by Hong Kong-based Landing [...]
JEJU, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More visitors are coming to Jeju to get some exercise. According to the Jeju Tourism Association, the number of visitors to Jeju for sporting activities between January and March 2015 was 406,451, which was a 16.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Their share among all [...]
JEJU, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A special call center dedicated to electric vehicle drivers was set up in Jeju to help solve EV-related complaints in the province. On April 6, Jeju Self-governing Province opened the EV Call Center to offer EV-related information such as road side service, and reports related to charging station malfunctions. EV drivers [...]