GYEONGGI, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi Province is considering the idea of launching its own poultry farms that would drastically change the area allocated to each chicken, as part of all-out efforts to prevent and tackle outbreaks of avian influenza that have swept across the country in the past, city [...]
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A massive Chinatown to be established in Pyeongtaek’s Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone (YSFEZ) is finally picking up steam. According to China Castle, the project’s special purpose company (SPC), 50 billion won ($44 million) in capital has been secured, which should allow the venture to take off [...]
PYEONGTAEK, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A new Chinatown will be established in the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone (YSFEZ), located in Pyeongtaek. Except this time, it’s going to be a lot bigger. The 2,320,000m2 area will turn into a full-scale shopping and tourism mecca. A special purpose company (SPC) named China Castle was established [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Pyeongtaek announced that it will be developing a manual outlining how to deal with the U.S. army’s imports of anthrax as the American military is moving its base to Pyeongtaek in 2016. Gong Jae-gwang, the mayor of Pyeongtaek, announced that the city will make an ‘anthrax manual’ [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of foreign residents continues to increase rapidly, the housing rental market targeting them is expanding and diversifying. According to real estate industry watchers, the preferred residential areas for foreigners are expanding from traditionally popular places like Hannam-dong, Itaewon and Yongsan to Mapo in Seoul, Songdo in Incheon and Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An auxiliary nurse from a clinic in Pyeongtaek, the region at the epicenter of the MERS virus outbreak, shared her story of what it feels like to be isolated at home for treatment to prevent the further spread of the virus. After a patient who visited the clinic where [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Korea, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics broke ground on a new chip-production line on Thursday, aiming to further expand its clout in the semiconductor sector amid its ailing smartphone business. The 15.6 trillion won (US$14.4 billion) chip line in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers south of Seoul, is scheduled to [...]