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 [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government plans to set up more COVID-19 testing centers and expand their operating hours in response to a new wave of virus resurgence, officials said Thursday. According to the city’s virus resurgence response plans, a temporary COVID-19 testing center will be set up in each of [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hungarian and Colombian ambassadors to South Korea were awarded honorary citizenship of Seoul on Thursday in recognition of their contributions to developing bilateral ties. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon presented a certificate of honorary citizenship to Hungarian Ambassador to South Korea Mozes Csoma and Colombian Ambassador to South Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The average price of an apartment in Seoul has shot up nearly fourfold in the past 18 years after more than doubling under the previous Moon Jae-in administration alone, a civic group analysis showed Tuesday. A 99.1-square-meter apartment in the capital fetched 1.28 billion won (US$973,162) on average as [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday that it will launch a project to realize a variety of tourist attractions in the metaverse. Seoul, designated as a lead organization for this project by the Ministry of Science and ICT, will form a cross-regional consortium with North Gyeongsang Province and North [...]