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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government will provide North Korean defectors with free health checkups, online tutoring services for students and other support measures to help them better settle in their new homeland, officials said Monday. It is the first time in nine years that Seoul has put together support measures [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Sunday it will launch a 180 billion won (US$150 million) project to link parks and other green spaces with “green roads” in an effort to make urban green spaces more accessible. Under the Green Road Project, the city government plans to renovate and create [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI)-based safety management system will be introduced at construction sites in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Digital Foundation announced Thursday the launch of a trial project for introducing AI-based safety solutions at private construction sites in the city. The AI system conducts [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With sales of high-end imported cars increasing last year, Seoul’s Jung District has surpassed the affluent Gangnam District, and now has the highest proportion of registered imported cars. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport reported that the number of imported cars registered in Jung District reached 23,578 vehicles [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will pay subsidies to buyers of about 14,200 electric vehicles during the first half, as part of its bid to support the purchase of 27,000 electric vehicles for the whole year. The Seoul government had supplied 52,400 electric vehicles for 13 years [...]