SANCHEONG, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) — In the aftermath of back-to-back disasters, the rural county of Sancheong in South Gyeongsang Province finds itself overwhelmed, under-resourced, and emblematic of a broader crisis facing South Korea’s depopulating regions. Slammed first by a massive wildfire in March and then by record-breaking rains in July that dumped nearly 800 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities will intensively deploy helicopters to battle the deadly wildfires that have engulfed the southeastern county of Sancheong for the fourth consecutive day Monday, as the blaze is spreading to the adjacent Hadong County, officials said. As many as 36 helicopters were deployed to the two counties in South [...]
SANCHEONG, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Villagers in South Korea’s southeastern county of Sancheong have gone crazy over the news that the Vietnamese national football team, led by South Korean coach Park Hang-seo, won its first Southeast Asian Games football gold on Tuesday. Sancheong is the hometown of Park, who has become a national hero [...]
SANCHEONG, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A Vietnamese trading company visited small businesses in the hometown of Park Hang-seo, the head coach of Vietnam men’s national football team, and signed contracts to purchase agricultural products. It was reported on Tuesday that Rung Nho Service Trading Invest Co., a Vietnamese trading company, signed contracts with firms [...]
SANCHEONG, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Sancheong County in South Gyeongsang Province announced on Wednesday that it had nominated Park Hang-seo as an honorary ambassador for the county. Park, who became national hero for his success as the head coach of Vietnam national men’s football team, was visiting his hometown for the South Korean Lunar [...]