SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households that moved from urban areas to farming and fishing villages logged a marked decrease in 2022 following two years of on-year growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of households moving to farming villages came to 318,769 in 2022, down 12.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to halve the number of vacant houses in rural areas to 33,000 by 2027 by extending policy financing for their renovation and by making a special law and an integrated database to promote refurbishment and transactions, the agriculture ministry said Thursday. Currently, the number of unoccupied, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal governments are competing to attract more people returning to farming and rural areas as part of efforts to address their population crisis. The South Chungcheong provincial government recently decided to set up a large smart farm complex by investing 43.6 billion won (US$33.7 million) by 2025 on reclaimed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry plans to introduce a “basic quota of teachers” to sustain small schools in rural communities where the population is declining, officials have said. For its mid- and long-term teacher supply plan, the ministry decided to calculate the number of teachers needed by the size of the [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday it had launched the first stage of commercialization of 5G roaming service in some farming and fishing villages. The first stage of commercialization was launched in 149 eups (towns) and myeons (townships) in 22 cities and counties based on comprehensive consideration [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households that moved from urban areas to farming villages reached an all-time high last year amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and soaring housing prices, data showed Thursday. The number of such households came to 377,744 in 2021, up 5.6 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]
CHEONGJU, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a plunging fertility rate and population aging crisis, residents of rural areas in South Korea are going all-out to attract students from urban areas since they regard it as the only solution to prevent elementary schools in their villages from closing down. The number of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to drag on, schools in rural, agricultural towns are gaining popularity as an alternative for parents worried about their children being exposed to infections or unable to attend class. Omcheon Elementary School, located in a rural town of Gangjin County, South Jeolla Province, currently [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of the population in South Korea’s farming areas was aged 65 and older last year as younger people flocked to cities for education and jobs, data showed Tuesday. The portion of those aged 65 and above accounted for 46.6 percent of the total population residing in rural [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Mail carriers working in rural areas will be entitled to enjoy a five-day workweek starting next year. Korea Post, South Korea’s state-run postal service operator, decided to outsource parcel deliveries to local private businesses to reduce the burden on mail carriers stationed in rural areas. In areas where outsourcing [...]