SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Yangcheon District announced on Monday that rest areas for pets have been installed at 40 public restrooms in the district’s parks. Previously, pet owners struggled to find a place to keep their pets while using public restrooms. They had to either carry their pets inside the restroom or [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Geocentric Co., a chemical unit under South Korea’s SK Group, announced that it had signed an agreement with the Ministry of Environment, expressway operator Korea Expressway Corp. and bottled water brand Jeju Samdasoo to launch a campaign promoting the separate disposal of plastic bottles at expressway rest areas. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Jongno District Office announced on Thursday that it will set up benches in outdoor areas based on donations from the public. In response to the increasing demand for so-called ‘untact’ rest areas in the city following the spread of the coronavirus, the new ‘Space For You’ project aims [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea started providing free wireless Internet on small highway rest stops across the nation Friday in a bid to reduce people’s phone bills. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Expressway Corp. said free WiFi zones were set up at 248 rest areas for drowsy [...]
WONJU, South Korea, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – As most highway rest areas in Korea offer a great variety of eateries, they are becoming the perfect place for young entrepreneurs to start their businesses, just like an ‘incubator’. The Korea Expressway Corporation’s Gangwon Regional Headquarters announced on Tuesday, July 5, that it is holding a contest [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Korea Offers Best Highway Rest Areas in the World](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/4729433024_8d0622bde1_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Korea Offers Best Highway Rest Areas in the World")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 11 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea, a small country of a little over 100,000 square kilometers equivalent to that of Serbia, is crisscrossed with highways and artery roads long and short, with so many rest areas all along the way. Unlike most rest areas elsewhere that provide bare-bones services such as rest rooms, outdoor tables [...]