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 [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Formula E Korea said Wednesday it will host the Seoul E-Prix in Seoul’s Jamsil neighborhood on August 13-14. The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, an annual motor racing championship for electrically powered vehicles, is hosted by the International Automobile Federation (FIA). The championship, dubbed “Formula E,” has been [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Wednesday it will expand the operation of late-night taxis to cope with the growing demand for taxi service during late hours following last month’s lifting of almost all social distancing measures and the business curfew. Starting April 18, restaurants, cafes and many other business [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is introducing remote checks for water meters in across the city using Internet of Things (IoT)technology. The city government said Tuesday it will replace some 660,000 water meters, which is equivalent to 30 percent of all 2.22 million water meters in the Seoul region, with [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has introduced a new concept of “pumasi” (the communal sharing of labor) system in which a user provides help to another user and then “timepay” credit is added to the helper’s account, which can be redeemed for services from other members. The city government announced [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will put an additional 2,000 single-person households on a special program that harnesses Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor and prevent unattended deaths, officials said Monday. Since late 2020, the city has been operating the “smart plug” program, under which the amounts of electricity [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A large plot of public land in the heart of Seoul, designated as the site of a museum for the donated artworks of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, will turn into a green resting space for citizens this year, the city government said Friday. The 37,117-square-meter plot in Songhyeon-dong [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will distribute a self-driving car simulator that virtually recreates the autonomous driving vehicle test drive zone in the city’s western district of Sangam as open-source software. The virtual world implements a three-dimensional, high-definition map that renders even the slightest details like lane [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Tuesday it will resume large in-person outdoor festivals across the capital following the recent removal of major virus-related social distancing rules. According to officials, the 2022 Seoul Jazz Festa will open on Nodeul Island in central Seoul later Tuesday for a six-day run until [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Sunday it will offer a free animal insurance policy for 12 months to those who adopt an abandoned animal. Anyone who adopts an abandoned animal through 13 designated public agencies and institutions and registers the animal with their local government will be eligible for [...]