GIMCHEON, April 29, (Korea Bizwire) — As wildlife activity increases in the spring months, South Korea’s highway authority is urging drivers to exercise heightened caution to prevent animal-vehicle collisions, known as roadkill incidents. The Korea Expressway Corporation said Monday that drivers should be particularly alert during May and June, when wildlife crossings on highways peak. [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Expressway Corp. (KEC) has signed a deal to operate and manage a foreign road for the first time among South Korean state-run enterprises. The expressway operator said Thursday it had signed a 100 billion won (US$78.7 million) deal with the Bangladesh Bridge Authority to operate and manage [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Expressway Corp., which manages South Korea’s highways across the nation, said Thursday it had introduced a “safety signal light” system in which it assesses the safety level of highway construction sites once a month and visualizes the result by color. The new system was introduced last month [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom said on June 16 that it has signed an agreement with Korea Expressway Corp. to share big data with each other and create useful information out of these. The latest pact involves sharing big data provided by Geovision, SK Telecom’s commercial zone analysis tool, and highway usage data held [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Korea Offers Best Highway Rest Areas in the World](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/4729433024_8d0622bde1_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Korea Offers Best Highway Rest Areas in the World")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 11 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea, a small country of a little over 100,000 square kilometers equivalent to that of Serbia, is crisscrossed with highways and artery roads long and short, with so many rest areas all along the way. Unlike most rest areas elsewhere that provide bare-bones services such as rest rooms, outdoor tables [...]