SEOUL, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeonju Hanok Village, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the southern provinces of South Korea, features more than 700 traditional Korean houses called ‘hanok’. Some of the houses were built during the Joseon dynasty, however most of the traditional hanok were built during the Japanese colonial era. More [...]
JEONJU, South Korea, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s traditional city of Jeonju has been reauthorized as a slow city by Cittaslow International in recognition of its efforts to preserve traditions and nature, a city official said Tuesday. Notable is that the scope of the certification as a slow city this time has been expanded from [...]
JEONJU, Dec.22 (Korea Bizwire) – The local government of Jeonju has designated an airway for drones, and announced that it will concentrate on fostering businesses related to drones. The drone business in Jeonju is gaining momentum as the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport selected Jeonju as a ‘Drone Zone’ to test the safety of [...]
JEONJU, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Jeonju and Goheung County have signed a MoU to efficiently recycle large waste items such as disposed furniture. Goheung County will be purchasing waste from Jeonju and providing it to Yeosu’s Thermal Power Plant. The county will dispatch two workers with three waste decomposing machines to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Jeonju is set to develop 100 urban forest areas for urban heat-island reduction, said the city government on February 20. The forest areas will be developed at schools, apartments, streets and rooftops in varying sizes. A total of 400 million won (US$ 360,000) will be spent this [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans have long believed that the most important thing in home building is harmony with the nature. They correctly thought houses built surrounding environmental conditions in mind can withstand natural elements better. For this reason, we Koreans boast tens of thousands of traditional houses still standing in this [...]