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 [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul citizens choose to move to neighboring Incheon and Gyeonggi Province not just to find cheap, affordable homes but to move to a new, quality residences, a survey showed Thursday. The Seoul Institute conducted a survey of 2,085 residents in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province who had moved in [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of single-person households in Seoul are satisfied with living alone, but struggle with difficulties arising in emergencies, a survey showed Tuesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government conducted a survey of 3,079 people living alone, of which 86.2 percent were satisfied with solitary life, up by 13 percentage points [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul saw greenhouse gas emissions by the industrial and transportation sectors decline during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic while emissions by households increased, officials said Tuesday. The estimated total greenhouse gas emissions in the city reached 45.46 million tons last year, down 0.3 [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of elderly individuals living alone in Seoul has exceeded the 350,000 level, data showed Sunday. According to data from Statistics Korea, the number of seniors over 60 years of age living alone in the capital city totaled 355,000 as of 2020, up about 30,000 compared to a [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Friday it will invest a total of 612 billion won (US$479.7 million) over the next four years to beef up the city’s public medical services, including the construction of three new city-run hospitals. The project was launched amid growing calls for an expansion of [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Thursday it will begin resuming late-night public transportation operations in the city, two years after they were reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The city government plans to extend daily subway operation hours through 1 a.m., instead of midnight on weekdays, starting sometime in [...]