CHUNCHEON, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the controversial Mount Seorak cable car project has filed an emergency injunction seeking to suspend the development, citing irreversible ecological damage. The coalition, known as the National Action to Protect Mount Seorak National Park, submitted a request to the Chuncheon District Court on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The environment ministry on Monday gave a conditional nod to a controversial project to build and operate a cable car system over a natural reserve area on Mount Seorak near South Korea’s east coast. The project, pursued since the 1980s, seeks to build a 3.3-kilometer-long cable car system between [...]
SOKCHO, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The first snow of the season fell on a portion of Mount Seorak in the northeast of the country Tuesday, 15 days earlier than last year, park authorities said. Flakes began falling at about 10 a.m. around Jungcheong Shelter, 1,676 meters above sea level, according to the Seoraksan National [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fake news that spread on social media on April Fools’ Day raised eyebrows in South Korea at a time when people have been feeling fatigued as the country fights to contain the new coronavirus. The office of the national park at Mount Seorak on the east coast dismissed Wednesday [...]
YANGYANG, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A rock that resembles Mother Mary and Baby Jesus was found on Mount Seorak located in Yangyang County, Gangwon Province. A local hiker reported the rock – which is shaped like Mother Mary holding a Baby Jesus – to the county office in October. The county plans to consult [...]
SOKCHO, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Mountain ranges in Gangwon Province, where this year’s first heavy snow warning was issued last Monday, have turned into a land of snow. Mount Seorak’s Daecheong Peak (1,708 meters) has been covered with beautiful shapes of rime ice, declaring the coming of winter. White snowflakes that now cover the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment said Monday it has decided not to permit a new cable car project on Mount Seorak, one of the nation’s most scenic mountains, ending a years-long debate on the project’s possible damage to the environment. The Wonju Regional Environmental Office, under the ministry, announced a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Environmental activist Park Grimm was a senior in high school when he first wandered beneath the towering granite peaks of Mount Seorak in northeast South Korea. The dramatic landscape of vast forests and narrow gorges, so different from his hometown Seoul, consoled him during a difficult time in his [...]
CHUNCHEON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s northeastern mountainous region observed the first snowfall of the season on Thursday, with a torrential rain warning issued for parts of the east coast, the Gangwon Local Meteorological Administration said. Four centimeters of snow had accumulated by 9:00 a.m. in most parts of the high mountainous region, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A government arbitration commission on Thursday ruled in favor of a county in Gangwon province that has been planning to set up a cable car on a popular mountain range near the nation’s eastern coast. In the ruling, the Central Administration Appeal Commission under the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights [...]