SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) is set to introduce new reforms to the current aviation law concerning bird strikes, which will determine whether or not facilities that could attract birds can be built near airports, the government branch announced yesterday. The MOLIT’s new move comes on [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is famous for its high population density. Excluding some city-states and island countries, Korea, with its 487 inhabitants per square kilometer of land as of 2013 can be ranked within the top 10 in terms of population density. Making the density in some areas even higher, more than [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, a leading Internet portal in South Korea, said Monday it plans to launch a charge-based luxury taxi-hailing service later this year, riding the popularity of an existing free application. KakaoTaxi has gathered a combined 5 million calls from users in just three months after its release, with [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Following an amendment to existing laws, apartment constructors will now be obliged to provide exclusive air ventilation systems for each household in new building complexes, to prevent the backward flow of smells from neighbors. Currently, as all households share the same ventilation system, civil complaints are often raised between [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – International passengers who purchase Internet or mobile flight tickets will soon be able to shorten their boarding process by up to 30 minutes at Korean airports. On December 22, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it is implementing a simplified boarding process service for international passengers with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – With an aviation-related certification agreement between Korea and Turkey, the Korean made KC-100 four-passenger jet is ready to take to the sky in Turkey. On December 15, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it signed an MOU with Turkey’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation on the mutual recognition [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s automobile registration number has surpassed the 20-million level. This is fourth among Asian countries following Japan (reached the milestone in 1972), China (2002), and India (2009), and 15th in the world. The single most popular model of all these cars was Hyundai’s Sonata while that for import brands was [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — From now on, apartment builders will have to cut the energy consumption level of new buildings by 30-40 percent from that in 2009. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport said on November 3 that it would notify new standards on environmentally friendly housing units for three weeks between November [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – For the ongoing land reclamation project in Saemangeum area in the southwest, the Korean government decided to enlist foreign companies to have the right to develop the reclaimed land and allow the developers to resell less than 50 percent of the land. Currently, the development project for the reclaimed land [...]