SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Outdoor public swimming pools and water sports facilities by the Han River in Seoul will reopen later this month after more than two years of closure due to the pandemic, city government officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said four swimming pools and two facility zones by the [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will provide education fee support to kindergartens with foreign children that are suffering from financial difficulties stemming from the prolonged pandemic, officials said Wednesday. Under an emergency handout, the city government will cover half of education fees of 1,556 foreign children enrolled in 551 national, [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul was selected as the 10th best city for startups in an annual report released Tuesday by research firm Startup Genome, city officials said. The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2022 by the firm, dedicated to improving the startup ecosystem of each city, surveyed 280 cities across some 100 nations [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Thursday it had partnered with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Hyundai Motor Co. to test and verify Level-4 autonomous driving technology in Seoul’s downtown areas. A Level-4 autonomous vehicle means the car can operate almost independently with little intervention or control [...]
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 [...]