SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid record youth unemployment rates mired in the double digits, the Seoul Metropolitan Government is continuing its efforts to support young people this year, with 5,000 young people between the ages of 19 and 29 set to receive 500,000 won every month from July for up to six months [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea) – On-site Counseling Service”, Seoul Global Center’s new outreach service for foreign residents that visits areas with a large foreign population, is proving popular among those who are too busy to visit the center in person during the week. When the first session of On-site Counseling Service this year took place earlier [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Tayo buses, decorated with the main characters of the famous Korean cartoon series Tayo the Little Bus, have remade themselves into Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer to celebrate the end of 2014. The Seoul Metropolitan city government announced on November 8 that it would operate 26 Rudolf-decorated Tayo buses until the [...]
In 2012, when Michael J Sandel visited Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, he was greeted by more than 13,000 students and citizens eager to have his lecture on the theme of “On What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”. SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Michael Sandel, a Harvard University professor and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A growing number of Koreans insist that strong measures should be taken to improve taxi driver safety, following a spate of serious taxi crimes. Last month, a taxi driver was assaulted by a passenger in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province. When the driver tried to give change to the customer [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A contentious clause about LGBT prevented the Seoul Human Rights Charter from being ratified, in a blow to one of Mayor Park Won-soon’s election promises. The mayor had planned to establish the charter for human rights in Seoul with the participation of Seoul citizens and communities. However, of the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Pucca will engage in public information campaign activities to promote Seoul to its citizens and tourists. It will introduce Seoul’s main attractions to foreign tourists as well. The Seoul metropolitan city government signed an agreement with Vooz which created the character Pucca on November 17 to jointly produce content [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber eventually starts to run a taxi service called UberTaxi from October 23 in Seoul. Uber has been right in the center of controversies in many countries for its allegedly unlawful activities. Taxi drivers who registered themselves on Uber can carry passengers for a fee. The drivers and the passengers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A city-wide campaign to make Seoul citizens keep healthy weight has paid off with an increasing number of Seoulites successfully shedding their pounds, helped by the motivational weight loss initiative. The Seoul Metropolitan city government, which launched the weight loss campaign “Healthy Weight 3.3.3. Project 2014″ early July this year, announced 12,314 citizens [...]
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“If we are to bring down climate temperatures, we must step up and scale up global climate actions internationally. An unprecedented collaboration among city networks will make great progress in fighting climate change.” Park Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul SEOUL, Sep. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Won-soon, mayor of Seoul announced a plan called the Compact [...]