SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – With an increasing number of trees being cut down for redevelopment projects, calls are growing for protective measures. Following plans for a redevelopment project at a Gaepo apartment complex in Gangnam District that will see old trees on the site chopped down, a new social media campaign has been [...]
SEOUL, NOV. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced plans to introduce small solar panels at 1 million households by 2022. Currently, around 30,000 households in Seoul are equipped with mini solar panels, but Seoul’s ambitious plan will see the number grow by a factor of more than 30, allowing one in every [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has planted 90,000 trees to create an urban forest at Nanji Hangang Park. Around 40 types of trees were planted, including willow trees, elm trees, and Chamaecyparis pisifera to make up four separate small forests covering some 60,000 square meters of land, the Hangang Project Headquarters [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Monday it is giving away so-called ‘companion plants’ to some 2,000 single elderly households to help fight depression and loneliness. Companion plants reflect the horticultural therapy aspect of plants with mental health benefits. When placed close to people, companion plants are thought to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Public transport in Seoul will become free on days with high fine dust levels, beginning next Monday. Seoul’s free public transport program is expected to take effect in less than a week, a policy that will see passengers ride buses and the subway free of charge when the air quality [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government is expected to hold a discussion next week on controversial carpool services that have been accused of violating the Passenger Transport Service Act. The meeting is expected to gather together experts and officials from the taxi and ICT industries, civic groups, and government officials to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced it has teamed up with London-based social enterprises Locality and Social Life to embark on new urban renewal projects. The Seoul government signed a business agreement on Tuesday with both Locality and Social Life, social enterprises that successfully led urban restoration projects in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has unveiled 20 new places to visit that the city believes could be the next hot spots, including a part of Deoksugung Doldam-gil that has been closed to the public for over six decades. According to the new map released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is passing an ordinance that bans food trucks owned by franchise companies from entering publicly run events in the city, in a move to help small and medium independent businesses. As the city’s committee came to an agreement on Wednesday, the ordinance will take effect sometime [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A book-themed village, a community built around the culture of reading books, is set to be built in Seoul, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced. According to the plans revealed on Wednesday, the book-reading community will be built over 1,625 square meters of land in Jungnang District in northwestern [...]