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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Wednesday announced a digital culture city project centered on creating digital media artworks throughout the capital. The city government declared this year as the first year of the “Digital Emotional Culture City” project and unveiled 10 cultural policy tasks. Under the project, the Gwanghwamun [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Street views of all 14,699 alleyways in Seoul, including those of narrow back alleys unavailable even in commercial road view services, will be available within the first half of this year, the city government said Tuesday. The city government created 53,715 images of the alleys over the past two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Tuesday it will launch an experimental welfare program aimed at providing regular subsidies to low-income households in the capital under Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s initiative. Under the project, a total of 800 households in the bottom 33 percent income bracket and with less than 326 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving robots will start patrolling Children’s Grand Park and the Songpa Trail in Seoul from Monday, the city government said. The robots with a height of about 108 centimeters will patrol for the prevention of crimes and disease control throughout the park. While patrolling the park and the Songpa [...]