SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Temperatures in the western South Korean cities of Gwangmyeong and Paju soared above 40 C on Tuesday, marking the highest July temperatures ever recorded in the country, the state weather agency said. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said Paju reached 40.1 C at around 3:24 p.m. while Gwangmyeong hit [...]
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 [...]
PAJU, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. investor Jim Rogers has been tapped to serve as an adviser on inter-Korean cooperation projects for Paju, a South Korean city near the border with North Korea, officials said Monday. Rogers plans to visit Paju, 30 kilometers north of Seoul, on Wednesday to sign an agreement to serve [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The third and last hiking trail along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that demarcates the two Koreas is expected to open in the border town of Paju in September, officials said Sunday. The western section of the DMZ trail in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, about 30 kilometers northwest of Seoul, appears [...]
PAJU, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Paju Police Station in Gyeonggi Province announced on Tuesday that it has launched the country’s first “African Patrol Team” comprised of residents from the African continent. A patrol team refers to a team formed by local residents to work with local police, such as district police and police stations, [...]
PAJU, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Paju, Gyeonggi Province announced on Monday that the new Dora Observatory, the first of its kind to be built inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ), is now open to visitors. The observatory allows visitors to take a closer look at major North Korean installations along the border, [...]
PAJU, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Since its opening a little more than three years ago, the Camp Greaves DMZ Experience Center has slowly but surely become a pit stop for tourists visiting the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. The Gyeonggi Tourism Organization and Paju City revealed that 23,116 tourists visited Camp Greaves [...]
PAJU, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – This is going to shake your legs. The city of Paju, in Gyeonggi Province, has finally completed the five-month construction of a hanging bridge dubbed “Wungye Hanging Bridge” on Gamaksan (mountain). The bridge is now the longest of its kind in South Korea. “Wungye Hanging Bridge is part of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]