SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The mosquito population in the greater Seoul area has dropped significantly following the series of heavy showers last month. The Seoul Metropolitan Government collected 55,677 mosquitoes in August through a digital mosquito monitoring system set up in 25 districts, which was 35.8 percent fewer than last year. The number [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will open pet care centers for socially vulnerable groups on a trial basis. The project, to end on Dec. 22, aims to support vulnerable groups who face difficulties arranging accomodation for their pets in case of a long-term absence. The pet care [...]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers, and ESR Group Limited (“ESR” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries as the “Group”; SEHK Stock Code: 1821), APAC’s largest real asset manager powered by the New [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Autonomous Police Commission said said Tuesday it will begin a pet patrol program in which members engage in crime prevention activities as they take their pets on a stroll. The committee, following positive feedback from a test project conducted in Gangdong District in May and June, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A night market along the Han River in southern Seoul is set to reopen later this week, city officials said Monday, after a nearly three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seoul city government had previously operated a number of night markets in different locations to attract tourists [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the announcement that semi-basement apartments, better known as “banjiha” in South Korea, vulnerable to heavy showers would gradually be phased out, the Seoul Metropolitan Government also introduced migration plans for residents currently living in banjiha houses. The city announced Monday that it will incorporate as many policy options [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government has disclosed medium- and long-term flood prevention measures centered on the construction of deep underground rainwater storage facilities in six flood-prone areas. According to the measures announced by Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Wednesday, the city government will spend 1.5 trillion won (US$1.15 billion) over the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Seoul will no longer give permission to construct basement or semi-basement homes, while pushing to gradually weed out existing subterranean homes, officials said Wednesday. The plan follows the deaths of three family members in a flooded semi-basement home in Seoul’s Gwanak district Monday night when [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Torrential rain triggered flash floods in the Seoul region on Monday that caused extensive damage, with some people deciding to ‘stop fighting’ the rain. Seoul’s Seocho District, located south of the Han River that bisects the city, sustained the most damage during the downpour. Cars were trapped in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents in some districts of Seoul were dumbfounded by the unusually strong torrential rain this week, as a month’s worth of precipitation fell in just one day. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said a total of 422 mm of rain fell in Shindaebang-dong of the southern Seoul district of [...]