LONDON, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Henley & Partners has seen a significant increase in enquiries from affluent families looking to access premium international education opportunities for their children via investment migration. The surge in demand and competition for places at Ivy League, Oxbridge, and other leading universities post-Covid has heightened interest in investment programs that offer a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said Monday that a satellite tracking device has been attached to a spotted seal that has been released to the sea, in order to determine out the routes and timing of the seal’s seasonal migration in real-time. The National Institute of Fisheries Science [...]
CHEORWON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A white-naped crane couple, members of a species registered as natural monument No. 203 and classified as a endangered species, is gaining the country’s attention as the birds decided to stay in the central border town of Cheorwon throughout the whole winter and remain there to this day. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of scientists from South Korea, Australia and South Africa verified through DNA screening that the most recent common ancestors of modern humans originated from the Kalahari region of Africa, a state-run research institute said Tuesday. The scientists, including Axel Timmermann, director of the Center for Climate Physics [...]
ULSAN, South Korea, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Residents of the southeastern city of Ulsan have spotted tens of thousands of baby toads covering the streets of Janghyeon-dong, according to reports Wednesday. Officials believe that the 1.5 centimeter-long animals hatched in the neighborhood’s reservoir and were headed towards Hwangbang Mountain. “I couldn’t even set foot [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s urban population continued to increase last year with more than 90 percent of the total population living in less than 17 percent of the total land here, a government report showed Thursday. According to the report from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the number of [...]
SEJONG, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean urban households moving to rural areas jumped more than 10 percent in 2015 from a year earlier as the return-to-farm movement is becoming notable in the country, government data showed Thursday. A total of 11,959 households living in the countryside came from cities last [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to the stagnating economy and declining real estate sales, the number of Koreans migrating to different areas has declined in three consecutive months (as of May). The total number of domestic migrants in May was 589,000, the lowest figure for the month since May 1975 (480,000). Among those [...]