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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will hold a beauty fair next month to showcase the latest local brands and advances made in the industry, officials said Monday. The Seoul Beauty Week, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, will kick off on Sept. 30 at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in central Seoul [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Thursday announced an initiative to add free Wi-Fi to streets and tourist attractions with a heavy floating population. In collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT and major telecom operators, the city government installed 23,476 Wi-Fi routers throughout the city during the period [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has teamed up with twelve high-level general hospitals to launch customized care services including cleaning and food delivery for discharged patients with mobility difficulties, among others, elderly and disabled people. The city government announced on Wednesday that it will launch the “SOS Center Connect Service [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Tuesday unveiled a new vision for an abandoned train maintenance depot site in the central district of Yongsan, vowing to turn the area into a futuristic urban space comprising international business, residential and cultural complexes by the 2030s. According to the Yongsan International Business [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A summer festival spanning the Han River’s riverside parks in Seoul will kick off this week for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Seoul said Sunday. The summer edition of the 2022 Han River Festival will hit the river’s 11 parks across [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group claimed Thursday that highly toxic pesticides have been used extensively in Seoul’s public green spaces such as parks and palaces as well as on street trees. The Korean Federation for Environmental Movement received data on the use of pesticides sprayed in the capital city’s public green [...]