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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has decided to introduce 3,000 additional public bicycles, dubbed Ttaereungyi in Korean, by the end of this year, and another 3,000 next year. Seoul mayor Oh Sae-hoon visited a local Ttaereungyi rental stand near City Hall on Friday to announce the said plans and collect [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday that it will present a ‘welcome box’ containing a Seoul map and first aid kits to young single-person households who move from other provinces. The welcome boxes will be presented to individuals between 19 and 29 years of age who moved to Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it will provide a digital mapping service that locates zero-waste shops in the city. Users can look up zero-waste cafes, restaurants, refill shops and eco-friendly appliance stores by accessing the Smart Seoul Map website and clicking on the zero-waste icon. The map [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The first frost of the season was observed in Seoul on Monday as unseasonably cold weather continued for most parts of the country in the morning, the state weather agency said. Morning lows ranged from minus 4 C to 5 C across the country, compared with Sunday’s minus 2.6 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Temperatures in Seoul sharply dropped to nearly 1 degree Celsius on Sunday, marking the coldest morning for mid-October in 64 years, the state weather agency said. The morning low in Seoul came to 1.3 C in the day, the lowest since Oct. 19, 1957, when the figure was minus [...]