SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Waste bins in South Korean public restrooms will soon be removed with a revision passed at a cabinet meeting Tuesday. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the revision mandates that trash cans, which have been criticized for causing poor hygiene in public restrooms, be removed from individual stalls. [...]
JEJU, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to temper the rising crime rate on Jeju Island – one of Korea’s most popular holiday destinations – municipal officials from the two biggest cities on the island, Jeju and Seogwipo, have decided to equip public restrooms with smart alarms triggered by noises indicating a criminal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government revealed Sunday that it has assigned 50 Women’s Safety Inspectors to start monitoring public and commercial areas like restrooms and dressing rooms to unearth unlawful ‘hidden cameras’ that have grown rapidly in recent years. According to police statistics, the number of hidden camera-related sexual harassment [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – With the recent murder of a 23-year-old woman at a public restroom near the Gangnam subway station bringing concern over safety at public facilities to the forefront, police and local government bodies in Daejeon and Chungnam Province are making an effort to come up with safety countermeasures. Some [...]