SEOUL Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have recently held high-level meetings involving bilateral cooperation in the areas of railway construction, infrastructure and energy, officials said Wednesday. Park Sang-woo, South Korea’s land, infrastructure and transport minister, met with Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, minister of energy and infrastructure of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to replace most of its diesel-powered train cars with electric ones by 2030 as part of its broad carbon neutrality push. The country has 15,732 train cars that include 358 diesel ones. Out of the diesel rail cars, the country plans to initially replace 162 rail [...]
DAEJEON, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Rail Network Authority (KRNA) will take measures to prevent wild birds from colliding with transparent sound barriers set up around railroad tracks to block railway noise. Wild birds often fly into these walls, which are too transparent and reflective for them to notice. The KRNA plans [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized railway workers ended their no-time-limit strike Monday following a five-day walkout, as they reached a deal with the management over a pay raise and better working conditions. After marathon talks, the labor union and the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), the operator of train services, struck an agreement to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized railway workers on Monday wrapped up their 72-hour strike, but train schedules are likely to be affected until services fully resume later in the day. The 19,000-member Korean Railway Workers’ Union ended their 72-hour strike at 9 a.m. They had demanded the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) increase wages [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese government has revealed plans to construct a high-speed railway that will connect Mount Paektu in North Korea with China’s Liaoning Province at a cost of approximately 1.7 trillion won. A Chinese government website, posted an announcement on the construction of the high-speed railway connecting Baihe County situated [...]
GWANGMYEONG, South Korea, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean city of Gwangmyeong, just south of Seoul, said Monday it will sign a memorandum of understanding with French national railway company SNCF this year to implement a Eurasia railway project to connect South and North Korea by rail to Europe. Former French Minister for [...]
PAJU, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Dokgae Bridge, located some 40 kilometers north of Seoul and eight kilometers south of the DMZ, connects the north and south banks of the Imjin River, near Imjingak. It was built in 1906 as a railway bridge, and as a set of two bridges – northbound and southbound. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Unionized workers of South Korea’s railway and subway services went on their first joint strike in 22 years Tuesday, protesting against the government’s push to implement a performance-based pay system. The members of Seoul’s two major subway labor unions launched the walkout at 9 a.m., the unions said. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s railway and subway workers will go on strike against the government’s performance-based pay system later this week, marking the first joint strike between the two sectors in some two decades, labor unions said Monday. The walkout scheduled to begin Tuesday is part of a series of strikes [...]