SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The front lawn of the presidential office is expected to open to the public as early as April after the required budget passed through parliament last week, officials said Monday. The land surrounding the presidential office was previously used as a U.S. military base and is currently in the [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean-style forest park will be set up near Angkor Wat Buddhist temple complex, Cambodia’s most famous tourist destination, using South Korean forest management technology. The Korea Forest Service held the first plenary session for the Korea-Cambodia joint operating committee online on Tuesday. The park will be set up [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A completion ceremony for South Korea’s first coal power plant turned into an liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined power plant was held on Tuesday in Seoul’s Mapo district. Seoul Power Plant, operating since 1930, temporarily turned into an oil-fired power plant, before construction began for a new LNG plant [...]
TAEBAEK, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A coal mining town is one of the facilities at the Taebaek Activity Park in Gangwon Province, which was opened in 2006 with an investment of 13 billion won (US$11.5 million) for the project. The Taebaek Activity Park consists of a field trip center and mining town. The field trip [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new Dinosaur Footprint Park opened on Thursday in Ulsan’s Woojung Innocity. The Korea Land and Housing Corp. invested 3.14 billion won (US$2.78 million) for the construction of the park that surrounds a dinosaur footprint, a cultural asset designated by the city of Ulsan. Four life-size models of dinosaurs [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to the overpass-turned-park Seoullo 7017 surpassed the 3 million mark as of Sunday as the site celebrated its 100th day since its opening, the Seoul city government said. The number of users reached 3.61 million on Aug. 23, since the public park converted from an [...]
PAJU, South Korea, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A park for mixed-race Korean adoptees sent abroad in the years after the 1950-53 Korean War will be built inside a former U.S. military base on the outskirts of Seoul, officials said Wednesday. The park named “Mother’s bosom” in Korean will be constructed in Paju, some 30 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by preventive medicine researchers at Seoul National University revealed that living near parks or other green spaces can decrease the risk of hyperlipidemia – an unusually high concentration of fats or lipids in the blood resulting from a high cholesterol diet, lack of exercise, or stress. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Seonjeongneung is located in Gangnam’s Samseong-Dong, one of the city’s busiest business districts. It is a 220,000-square-meter city park featuring 500-year-old burial grounds of two kings and a queen from the Joseon Dynasty. At the westernmost end of the park is the tomb of the King Seonjong (1457 – [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government said Thursday it will officially designate a drone park along the Han River that flows through the capital city next week. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said citizens will be able to freely fly their unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that are up to 12 kilograms in weight [...]