SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of young job seekers living in the greater Seoul area would prefer not to work outside of the region. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted a survey of 301 young job seekers living in the capital region, 49.2 percent of whom ‘more or less’ did [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will be testing autonomous food delivery robots until November of next year. The project will deploy 11 robots of three different types for the 18-month testing period. Following this month’s preparatory phase, indoor delivery robots will be deployed in August to engage [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s city government plans to sell the names of subway stations and bus stops to the private sector as a means to overcome its burgeoning losses. Seoul Metro, the operator of the Seoul subway system, recently said it will begin selling the rights to endow a secondary name to [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s population has fallen below 9.5 million, just six years after it sunk below 10 million, data showed Monday. The Ministry of Interior and Safety said that the population of the capital city stood at 9,496,887 as of late May, The city’s population was above 10.3 million as recently [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Late-night services on all subway lines in Seoul will fully return to the pre-pandemic level by early August, subway operators said Monday, following two years of them being scaled back over COVID-19. According to Seoul Metro and Korail, the operators of subway services in the capital, the weekday operating [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will host the 2022 Seoul International Ultra Trail Running Race, also known as the Seoul 100K, on October 15 and 16 in collaboration with the Korea Alpine Federation. The race will be divided into a 100-kilometer course connecting Seoul’s representative mountains with [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will host a month of book talks in June to connect some of the country’s celebrated novelists with readers, officials said Thursday. The monthlong program, “Stroll through Literature on the Grass,” will bring together several popular novelists, writers and citizens each Friday and Saturday during [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union for the Seoul subway said Saturday it reached an agreement with the Seoul city government to extend public transportation operations past midnight, two years after they were scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unionized workers of Seoul Metro, the operator of the Seoul subway system, [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s major night markets are set to reopen, their operator said Monday, after more than two years of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seoul metropolitan government previously operated a number of night markets at different locations to attract tourists and offer more business opportunities for small vendors. [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will phase out all its residential COVID-19 treatment centers across the capital by the end of this month amid the receding of the pandemic, officials said. In their fight against COVID-19, Seoul and other regional governments operated residential treatment centers to quarantine and treat patients [...]