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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Each new elementary school student in Seoul will be given a one-off allowance of 200,000 won (US$167) beginning this year, its education chief said Wednesday. The allowance, formally named “school admission preparation subsidy,” will be first paid to about 69,800 first graders in the capital this year, Cho Hee-yeon, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey showed that foreigners worldwide are deeply interested in traveling to Seoul. The Seoul Tourism Organization conducted a survey of 9,181 foreigners from seven regions across the world, 91.9 percent of whom said they wanted to travel to Seoul when foreign travel opens up. Among Korean respondents, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s ultrafine dust levels reached an all-time low last year, the metropolitan government said Sunday. The city reported that last year‘s ultrafine dust (PM 2.5 — particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) levels averaged 19.8 ㎍/㎥, which was 23 percent lower than in 2008 (26 ㎍/㎥) when the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul has the best work-life balance among metropolitan cities and provinces in South Korea, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Thursday unveiled the 2020 work-life balance index for the nation’s 17 metropolitan cities and provinces based on the results of a recent survey. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The cost of living was cited as the most important economic issue of 2022 by Seoul citizens, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey on 1,200 households in the capital by the Seoul Institute, 19.2 percent of the respondents said the cost of living is the top economic [...]