SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will co-host a virtual international conference with U.N.-Habitat next week to explore ways to protect heritage sites in large cities, officials said Tuesday. The webinar, titled “Heritage and Metropolis,” will bring together city and heritage management experts from more than 30 cities in 15 nations [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With home and jeonse rent prices skyrocketing and the scarcity of new homes on offer deepening in the South Korean capital of Seoul, the number of residents leaving the city has been accelerating for several years in a row. The number of residents who moved from Seoul to other [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, a cultural foundation affiliated with the Seoul city government, has introduced the ‘Art Ttaereungyi’, a unique take on Seoul’s ubiquitous public bicycles, in collaboration with Porsche Korea. The motif on the bicycle’s frame and fork was inspired by Korean traditional patchwork wrapping [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will temporarily lift operating day restrictions on privately-owned taxis in an effort to increase nighttime taxi services, as eased anti-virus restrictions are jacking up demand for nocturnal transportation, officials said Monday. The city will temporarily remove the restrictions under which privately-owned cabs were required to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has embarked on a mission to attract global financial agencies and enterprises as part of its efforts to become a global financial hub. The city government announced Thursday that it will invest about 241.8 billion won (US$205 million) over the next five years to attract [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Thursday that it will add more elevators to bridges crossing the Han River for the convenience of visitors to Han River parks. Many bicycle riders and pedestrians come to parks via the bridges that span the Han River. Some bridges, however, haven’t been connected [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul received the first snowfall of the season Wednesday morning, about a month earlier than last year, the state weather agency said. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said light snow was observed at the Songwol-dong weather observation station in central Seoul at 6:10 a.m. The KMA records the first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will launch a tumbler rental program this week in collaboration with a group of nearby coffee shops as part of a joint experimental project to drive out disposable cups from cafes, officials said Thursday. Under the “multiuse cup experimental project,” set to kick off Saturday, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government said Wednesday it will offer a new concept public service through online virtual worlds by building its own metaverse platform for the first time among local governments nationwide. The city’s own high-performance platform, tentatively named Metaverse Seoul, will be established by the end of next [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Thursday that it will replace all delivery motorbikes and aged diesel-fueled parcel trucks with electric models by 2025 in cooperation with related industries and the central government. At present, a total of 215,000 delivery motorbikes are operating in the city, of which full-time [...]