WONJU, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Endangered wild plants will be introduced to mountainous areas in Gangwon Province that have been devastated by limestone mining. The Wonju Regional Environmental Office said Tuesday that a program to introduce endangered wild plants to restore the ecological system of the limestone mining development area will be held again [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) renovated the Biseulsan Mountain Park in Daegu as an “open tourist site” and held a completion ceremony on Wednesday. An open tourist site is a tourist attraction that removes physical barriers on footpaths and is mounted [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The mountain sitting behind Cheong Wa Dae will fully open to the public this week after being off-limits for decades for security reasons, officials said Tuesday. The section that will newly open Wednesday is the southern side of Mount Bukak, which was largely closed to the public after a [...]
GURYE, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at Mount Jiri National Park released a flying squirrel back into the wild after rescuing and treating the endangered species. Earlier this month, a Buddhist monk found a flying squirrel worn out at his temple, and reported the case to the park’s wild animal protection agency. The agency [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A project to provide various accommodation facilities and programs will be carried out in earnest, focusing on low-lying national parks. The purpose of the project is to prevent cases where nature is damaged due to the culture of mountain climbing and to allow those from all walks of life, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that there is high demand among South Koreans for various kinds of mountain tourism that goes beyond hiking. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) recently conducted a study of 1,000 adult male and female South Koreans, 82.7 percent of whom said they were interested in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea seeks to deploy first-aid drones at popular mountains next year to deliver emergency medical supplies to victims on time, officials said Friday. The state-run Korea National Park Service (KNPS) said it plans to introduce 32 “ambulance drones” at 16 national mountain parks across the country next year. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Ulju Mountain Film Festival (UMFF) kicked off on Friday for a five-day run in the southeastern county of Ulju, with 31 movies from 20 countries set to be screened. Under the slogan of “The Road Together,” the fourth edition of the mountain-themed film fest runs from Sept. [...]
INCHEON, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities in Incheon are retrieving food bowls for stray cats to control the soaring feline population on Mount Gyeyang. Officials from Incheon’s Gyeyang District said that they have been retrieving cat shelters and food bowls placed near the entrance to the mountain since Thursday. The District Office put [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – November 22 in Korea is called “Soseol,” one of the 24 seasonal points on the traditional East Asian lunisolar calendar, when the first snow falls in the country. Soseol translates into “small snowfall” and comes after “Ipdong” (November 7), which marks the beginning of the winter season, [...]