SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Cell phones will be banned from use on construction projects commissioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The city government announced Thursday that it has implemented a new policy on mobile phone use by construction workers as part of its efforts to prevent accidents. The policy was inspired by Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul will receive citizens’ applications to choose sites for new electric vehicle chargers as part of its plan to supply 35,000 charging stations in the capital this year, city officials said Thursday. About 22,000 EV chargers will be installed in the city with the support of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — For Lee Bok-won, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in western Seoul, stocking up on fresh homemade kimchi during winter has been quite a chore for the past several years. The process, traditionally done by family groups over multiple days, usually involves a painstaking process of soaking a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government and gas station operator SK Energy Co. on Wednesday opened the first Total Energy Station that is designed to produce electricity as well as to enable the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) using a fuel cell and a solar power system. The energy station, installed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The first batch of self-driving taxies in Seoul will go into service in the city’s western region this week, the city government said Wednesday. Four autonomous cars will start providing public taxi services in the Sangam-dong district in western Seoul on Thursday, covering two separate transportation routes. Any passenger [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it will carry out a variety of trial projects within the first half of this year to establish a new logistics system aimed at enhancing efficiency in parcel deliveries as well as creating new jobs. Among such projects is the establishment of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — If a terrorist attack occurs in the Gwanghwamun Square area in central Seoul, Gwanghwamun Station on Subway Line 5 is most likely to become the primary target, a study warned Monday, calling for comprehensive counterterrorism preparedness in accordance with the capital’s rising international recognition. The study authored by professor [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that the number of people who used the free suit rental service for job seekers reached a record high last year. Used by 4,032 people in 2016 when it was first introduced, the rental service was used by 39,547 people last year, up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s subway operator will introduce brand new trains equipped with free mobile phone chargers and wider seats for pregnant women starting later this month, officials said Friday. Seoul Metro, the operator of the capital’s vast subway system, will put five new trains comprising 40 passenger cars into operation on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost three out of 10 women in Seoul believe they can have babies outside marriage, a city government report showed Thursday. According to the report, 28.1 percent of women and 31.6 percent of men living in the capital said they can have children even if they are not married. [...]