SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of a public toilet with an advanced purification facility, presumed to be built about 150 years ago, were discovered at a Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) palace in Seoul, a government agency said Thursday. The toilet ruins, which have the form of a rectangular stone pit measuring 10.4 meters [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A public washroom that was built in a northwestern area of Turkey funded by a Korean municipal government was vandalized just days after it opened to the public. Turkish press reported yesterday that the “Suwon public toilet” that was installed in the coastal Turkish city of Yalova was purposely [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly a quarter of citizens in Seoul prefer traditional toilets to western style ones in public restrooms, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on 3,137 people in March 2015, 22.8 percent of the respondents said they prefer traditional latrines where [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Metropolitan City Government of Incheon said on October 14 that it would begin removing trash cans inside toilets of public bathrooms and encourage bathroom users to throw used toilet tissue in the toilet bowl. It has been customary in Korea’s public restrooms to ask the users not [...]