SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government announced Wednesday it plans to offer subsidies for public transportation costs of young citizens regardless of income level starting next month as part of its new youth support scheme. According to the city’s new comprehensive youth support plan announced by Mayor Oh Se-hoon, the government [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Wednesday signed an agreement with Tranoi, the official trade fair of Paris Fashion Week, to help South Korean designers expand to the European fashion market, officials said. Under the memorandum of understanding on the “nurturing of global fashion brands and development of the fashion [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will provide a 60-minute standby time before towing away illegally parked shared electric scooters. The city announced a new towing policy for e-scooters on Tuesday. The number of reports on illegal parked e-scooters in the city reached 1,242 cases last July when the towing policy [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday it had developed a universal design model for childcare spaces in public facilities, easily accessible to all groups of people. Universal design ensures safe, comfortable access for all visitors regardless of gender, age, disability and nationality. Based on expert counseling and public surveys, [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will establish the first Gig Worker Workstation as part of efforts to provide workspace for gig workers who are employed primarily on a temporary basis. Based on considerations that gig workers use cafes or shared offices as workspaces, thereby resulting in a [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Thursday launched the operation of an integrated platform designed to promote the sharing of waterworks information on a real time basis. The Digital Arisu ON service, which has been in development since September 2020 for use by city workers, allows the user to have [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it will distribute 7,000 electric motorcycles this year. This is the largest annual volume since the city government launched the distribution of electric motorcycles. This year’s distribution of electric models will be equivalent to 60 percent of the cumulative number of motorcycles [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Friday unveiled three virtual influencer candidates for promotional ambassador of the capital’s central fashion district of Dongdaemun. The profiles of the candidates — Ha Ri-ra, Seo Hi and Mo I-da — are available on the city government’s online voting website, where a four-day public [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s reduced late night subway schedule will begin to be normalized from next week, as social distancing rules have been eased amid the prolonged pandemic, the city government said Friday. Seoul subway trains have been running on a schedule down by up to 20 percent after 10 p.m. since [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government has put up a message wishing for “peace for Ukraine” against an image symbolizing Ukraine’s flag on a large signboard plastered on the front wall of the Seoul city library building. The message on the Seoul Metropolitan Library building was put up in the hope [...]