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Paju Boosts Birth Grants to Tackle Low Fertility Rate

Paju Boosts Birth Grants to Tackle Low Fertility Rate

PAJU, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bid to alleviate the financial burden on families and encourage more childbirths, the city of Paju is drastically raising government payouts for newborns, becoming one of the most generous municipalities in South Korea for birth incentives. Paju, a satellite city of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, announced on March [...]

Gyeonggi English Villages Rebranded

SUWON, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeonggi Province’s ‘English Villages’ are closing down after 12 years of operation. Instead, they will be redeveloped into talent-training institutes, offering various educational programs that are more future-oriented.  An English Village was first established in 2004 in Ansan in an effort to create an environment that would offer professional [...]

Filming Site of ‘Descendants of the Sun’ to be Turned into Park

Filming Site of ‘Descendants of the Sun’ to be Turned into Park

PAJU, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The filming site of the sensational TV series “Descendants of the Sun” in Camp Greaves, the former U.S. military camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju, north of Seoul, will turn into a foothold of the region’s tourism industry, provincial officials said Sunday. The camp, which is currently [...]