SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will provide 1 million won (US$757.92) in a postpartum care subsidy starting in September to families with newborn babies in the capital, city officials said Tuesday. Under the program, all families that have lived in Seoul for at least six months will be entitled to [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday it will implement a new system enabling citizens to request radiation tests for food. Under this system, any citizen or civic group in the city can request a test for food suspected of radiation contamination. After reviewing the applications, the city government will [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul metropolitan government on Monday opened a general hospital dedicated to treating pet plants inside the Seoul Agricultural Technology Center. The new institution provides an expert prescription of ill plants by diagnosing the health condition of the plant. Severely ill plants will be hospitalized for a three-month concentrated [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Raising big chick balloons and other Easter symbols, about 4,000 Christians marched in central Seoul on Sunday in South Korea’s first large-scale Easter parade. Paraders, some featuring a procession of the Ark of the Covenant and a cross structure and others with musical instruments and in inline skates and [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it had created green spaces at two youth centers aimed at enabling teenagers who are excessively exposed to digital media to find mental stability by experiencing nature. The Play Ground, established at the Boramae Youth Center, consists of a series of gardens. The [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – While housing prices began to drop last year, households making the median income still struggle to buy apartments in Seoul, data showed Monday. Last year’s housing opportunity index for the capital city was 3.0, which indicates that only 3 out of 100 apartments in the city are within the [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government has tapped into artificial intelligence (AI) technology to automatically detect and monitor digital sex crimes around the clock, officials said Wednesday. The city’s center for fighting digital sex crimes introduced an AI-based monitoring system, developed by the Seoul Institute of Technology, to automatically find and [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will manage the entire process of construction projects by recording videos of construction sites, a first in South Korea. To begin, 74 construction sites each with construction cost of more than 10 billion won will be recorded on a trial basis for one [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1,800 Seoul citizens made a joint declaration to reduce the use of plastics at the Han River and streams in the Seoul area. The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday hosted a special event marking World Water Day to celebrate the “No Plastic Han River” joint citizen action day. [...]
COPENHAGEN, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will create floating swimming pools along the Han River by 2026, along with marina facilities equipped with restaurants, a concert hall and a sunset observation platform, the mayor has said. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon unveiled the plan to create the Han River Art Pier after [...]