SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States returned parcels of its military’s Yongsan Garrison in central Seoul to South Korea, officials said Friday, allowing Seoul to speed up its plan to build a public park near the presidential office. The return of 51,000 square meters of land inside the garrison included its southern [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The land ministry said Thursday it plans to temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul starting next week. Part of the site in Yongsan — once used as a garrison for the U.S. Forces Korea [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing police ban on assemblies and demonstrations within a 100-meter radius of the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul, will be maintained until the court makes its final judgment on the matter, the city’s police chief said Monday. Kim Chang-yong, commissioner-general of the Korean National Police Agency, told [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon-hee dropped by the office of President Yoon Suk-yeol on two consecutive days last week, photos from her fan club showed Sunday. Kim first visited the office on Friday after she and Yoon cast their ballots in early voting for the local elections. She came back [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The land ministry on Friday announced its decision to postpone the plan to temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul, citing a lack of preparations. On Thursday, the ministry said it will open part of [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it will temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul. The U.S. military is in the process of returning the site in the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul to the South Korean government [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have decided to continue to ban demonstrations within the 100-meter radius of the new presidential office in Seoul’s central district of Yongsan, sources said Friday. The Seoul Metropolitan Police has recently instructed the Yongsan Police Station and nearby police forces to give a notification of prohibition to those [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The streets around the office of President Yoon Suk-yeol in the central Seoul district of Yongsan appear to be replacing the neighborhood of Cheong Wa Dae, the former presidential office and residence compound, as a new magnet for individual and group demonstrators. On Wednesday, the second day of Yoon’s [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The incoming Yoon Suk-yeol government is planning to convert part of a U.S. Forces Korea base adjacent to the new presidential office in Yongsan into a cultural space reminiscent of a “Little LA” and open it to the public in September, officials said Sunday. The 500,000-square-meter space is just [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s new presidential office to be housed in the defense ministry compound in central Seoul will be open for public viewing in accordance with his preference for communication and openness, transition team officials said Tuesday. According to an artist’s rendering released by a task force from the [...]