SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 169 sinkholes formed in Seoul over the past seven years, the metropolitan government said Monday, amid a recent spate of cases of land subsidence on roads and other public places. The number of sinkholes, which refer to a depression or hole in the ground, surged from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul city’s unmanned bike rental service, dubbed Ttaereungyi in Korean, has surpassed 3.3 million members. One-third of all Seoulites now ride Ttaereungyi bicycles. In the seven years since the platform was launched, the bicycles have been used 91.65 million times, with the 100 million ride milestone expected to be [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will renovate worn-out buildings into low-carbon ones and increase the proportion of electric cars in the city by 2026 as part of efforts to respond to climate change, officials said Thursday. The measures were announced as part of a five-year project from 2022 to 2026 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Street vendor and shoe repair stalls, which used to dot the sidewalks of downtown Seoul, are now disappearing along with the change of the times. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the number of street vendor stalls and shoe repair stalls operating in downtown as of December stood at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Tuesday it will spend over 5.5 trillion won (US$4.6 billion) over the next five years to solve health, safety and housing problems of single-person households. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced the measure, saying his government will make greater efforts to improve the quality of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to start a trial of an artificial intelligence (AI) phone call service to say hello to about 300 middle-aged individuals living alone in Seoul within the first half of this year. The service will use an AI program designed to make phone calls to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Thursday it will invest a total of 345.9 billion won (US$291.4 million) this year in projects harnessing such cutting-edge digitization technologies as metaverse, big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Up to 1,067 projects, including those to be pursued by the city’s 25 districts, will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of crosswalk traffic signals are finding their way onto the ground in Seoul as a way to enhance the safety of pedestrians glued to their smartphones, according to the city’s ward offices Tuesday. Nearly 1,200 in-ground crosswalk traffic signal systems were in operation across the city’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The competition rate for admission to private elementary schools in Seoul has marked a sharp increase compared to a year ago. The average competition rate for admission to private elementary schools in the capital city stood at 11.7:1 in the 2022 academic year, a sharp increase from 6.8:1 a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Geumcheon district office said Tuesday that it will introduce artificial intelligence (AI) technology to keep traffic in back alleys safe. The district has set up ‘safety smartboards’ at two road entrances that lead to a children’s safety zone. The smartboards use a radar-based speed warning system to offer [...]