SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will hold a town meeting with foreign residents later this week to listen to their suggestions to make the city a better place to live in, officials said Thursday. The event will be held at the Seoul Global Center in central Seoul at 2 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The average price of Seoul apartments has soared more than twofold in about five years under the current Moon Jae-in administration, according to a civic group analysis Wednesday. According to the analysis by the Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ), an apartment in Seoul fetched 43.09 million won (US$36,590) [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday that it had mapped out a string of measures to ensure the safety of pedestrians around drive-thru stores that will take effect from this month. Drive-thrus are a common type of take-out service that allow customers to purchase products without leaving their cars. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As the difficulty in hailing a cab at night remains persistent, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and taxi companies are renewing efforts to recruit taxi drivers. The city government and the city’s 125 taxi companies plan to host a job fair for taxi drivers on Wednesday, the first of its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has established a system to ensure the swift rescue of citizens attempting suicide on bridges spanning the Han River. The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Thursday that it had set up an integrated Han River Bridge CCTV control center within the Ttukseom Rescue [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More people are moving from Seoul to nearby provinces like Gyeonggi and other regions in the greater Seoul area as housing prices in Seoul continue to spike. Statistics Korea reported on November 29 that last year, a total of 402,000 residents left Seoul for other cities or provinces and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately one-fifth of Seoul youths have been exposed to digital sex crime risks, according to a Seoul city government survey Tuesday. In the survey on 4,012 students in Seoul aged between 12 and 19 conducted in July, 21.3 percent said they have been exposed to the risks of digital [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving cars will begin operations as a means of public transportation for the first time in Seoul this week, the city government said Monday, signaling a new era for commercial autonomous vehicle services. The Seoul metropolitan government said three self-driving passenger cars will start operating for ordinary citizens Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is launching a new energy information platform service starting from Monday. The service is designed to make it easier for each household to check the amount of energy it uses on a monthly basis. The platform provides members with information on the monthly amount of [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently held the ’2021 Seoul City Competitiveness Global Forum’ under the theme of ‘Re-running Seoul, a leap forward as a global attractive city’ at the ‘Seoul-On Video Studio’ in Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). In order to restore Seoul’s global competitiveness, which has declined [...]