PYEONGTAEK/SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States held a ceremony Tuesday to commemorate the completion of a yearslong project to relocate their Combined Forces Command (CFC) headquarters from Seoul to a key U.S. military base south of the capital. The relocation of the CFC — the allies’ bedrock warfighting command [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s key military compound in central Seoul is set to undergo major realignments due to the planned relocation of the presidential office there at a time of rising security concerns caused by North Korea’s continued missile tests. The area is home to the nation’s defense ministry, the Joint [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s push to relocate the presidential office has become a hot button issue amid competing views on whether it will help the president better communicate with the people or simply waste resources. Yoon was elected last week after promising to “return” Cheong Wa Dae to the public [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A key administrative process to relocate the U.S. embassy building in Seoul was approved by city officials Thursday, opening the door for the beginning of the construction project that will close the embassy’s half-century-old presence in the heart of the South Korean capital. The Seoul metropolitan government’s city planning [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Logistics Corp., a major South Korean logistics firm, said Thursday it completed the relocation of historical structures in Turkey to prevent them from potentially being submerged by a dam project. The Hasankeyf project, launched in 2017, involved transporting 23 units of ancient structures aged well beyond 500 years [...]
TORONTO, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Romet Limited, the leading provider of natural gas meters and meter-related services, today announced the successful relocation of its headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. News of the impending move was originally released in June, 2018 at the opening of the 27th annual World Gas Conference in Washington D.C., and the initiative [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeon Hong-seop, 68, still remembers an old story that his grandmother told him when he was young about his family’s desperate escape from their hometown in Asan, South Chungcheong Province. It was in the midst of the January Fourth Retreat during the blisteringly cold winter of 1951, some six [...]
YONGIN, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The only remaining polar bear in South Korea, which has been living in a zoo south of Seoul for more than two decades, will move to a wildlife park in Britain later this year, zoo officials said Monday. The planned relocation of the bear, named Tongki, from the Everland [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Stray cats are not usually associated with local elections, but as animal welfare gains more prominence as a social issue, the furry creatures are creating ripples in the upcoming election. This is especially true in the case of the street cats left behind at a large apartment complex in [...]