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 [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched the operation of an automatic alert system to check the entry and departure of tax delinquent vehicles at 99 public parking lots in downtown areas from Friday. If vehicles subject to number-plate confiscation for tax delinquency enter the parking lot gates, the system [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s cityscape is expected to undergo a sweeping change, as the city government announced its decision to abolish its nearly decadelong height limit for residential buildings Thursday. The capital has capped the height of general residential buildings, including apartment towers, at 35 floors since 2014 under the rule of [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it had set up six ‘smart poles’ throughout the city that are capable of charging electric vehicles (EVs) and drones. The smart poles are state-of-the-art urban infrastructure that combine various functions needed to operate a city, including street lamps, traffic lights, as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Iconic landmarks across Seoul were lit up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag Sunday in support of the Eastern European nation under siege amid the Russian assault. N Seoul Tower on Mount Namsan, Seoul City Hall, Sebitseom on the Han River and Seoullo Media Canvas glowed blue and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility Corp.’s taxi-hailing service is selective in choosing passengers depending on their destinations, the Seoul metropolitan government said Wednesday. The city government carried out a fact-finding ‘mystery shopper’ test during the period from October to November last year after complaints poured in from citizens having difficulty calling taxis, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In Seoul, most of those who filed for personal bankruptcy were older than 50 years and single-person households accounted for more than a half of them, the city-run welfare center said Tuesday. The number of personal bankruptcy applications filed with the Seoul Bankruptcy Court last year totaled 10,873, up [...]