INCHEON, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of disputes are taking place at newly built apartment complexes that lack parking spaces, over the payment of parking fees by residents. A new apartment complex in Incheon, 27 kilometers west of Seoul, was embroiled in controversy after a notice asking residents to agree to new parking [...]
SEJONG, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — New technology that allows a self-driving car to park itself in a nearby parking space after passengers disembark will be developed in the administrative city of Sejong. The city signed an agreement with the Korea National University of Transportation on Friday to test drive a new autonomous valet parking [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced the development of a new system that uses closed-circuit cameras to offer parking discounts to drivers of electric vehicle (EVs) by automatically detecting batteries. The system uses CCTV cameras installed at EV charging stations to monitor how long the vehicles are plugged in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The controversy over parking inside private property, which has been a major source of inconvenience in everyday life, is being neglected without proper efforts to come up with a solution simply because there are no ‘grounds’ to execute administrative measures or enforcement. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission reported [...]
JEJU, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju Island has expanded the coverage of a unique garage certificate system exclusive to the island, to all types of vehicles starting from January, and there are mixed expectations and concerns about the province’s latest decision. The system makes it obligatory for vehicle owners to [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the rising popularity of camping among South Koreans, an increasing number of camper vans that are without appropriate parking spaces are instead occupying public parking lots and roads, drawing public ire. Four caravans are parked on one side of the Songdo International City road in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility, a firm that provides cab-hailing and driver-for-hire services, said Monday it added a new artificial intelligence (AI) function that can predict whether parking lots are full or not to its Kakao T Parking service, a first among South Korean parking apps. Previously, it was impossible for drivers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – With a woman who blocked the entrance to an apartment parking lot in retaliation for receiving a parking sticker drawing a nationwide attention, foreigners living in Songdo, where the drama unfolded, have been relaying information on the whereabouts of the event. The whole thing started on Monday afternoon when a worker [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With car owners continuing to report engine fires on BMW’s 520d model, a number of car parks are banning the vehicle in question. A sign at an automated parking building in Seoul’s Gaepo-dong neighborhood in Gangnam-gu yesterday warned, “BMW vehicles absolutely cannot be parked here.” The building, mainly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Three new government initiatives will make use of the latest smart devices to help improve the lives of elderly farmers and the disabled. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, in partnership with the local governments of Andong, Jeonju, [...]