SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of churchgoers are opposing Seoul Metropolitan Government’s plan to take down old spires at church buildings due to safety reasons. “Even if local authorities pay for taking down the spire, a small church wouldn’t be able to afford setting up a new one,” a petition on Cheong [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam District is offering hotel guestrooms to low-income seniors to fend off the summer heat until the end of this month. The district joined hands with four hotels in the area to provide 40 guestrooms to local residents in need. Once an extreme heat warning is issued, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The “MZ generation,” a Korean term referring to millennials and Generation Z, accounted for 35.5 percent of Seoul’s population last year, the city government said Wednesday. The cohort of people born between 1980 and 1994 (millennials) and between 1995 and 2004 (Generation Z) numbered 3.43 million, the largest of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Seoulites who took a summer vacation last year almost halved compared to the 2019 level, primarily due to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted a survey of 1,931 Seoul citizens aged over 15 years of age, in which [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-driving commercial vehicles will hit the roads in Seoul’s western district of Sangam as early as October, the city government said Tuesday. A new ordinance by the city government of Seoul on the operation of a special zone to host a pilot self-driving commercial vehicle project went into effect [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Friday it is ordering some 128,000 employees of department stores to take preemptive COVID-19 tests as a precaution against further cluster infections at the stores. The city government will issue an administrative order later Friday under which all managers and workers at 32 department [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Every weekend, mechanical engineer Choi Jong-eon packs his Sony camera and heads out to take photos of decades-old apartments in Seoul. Choi, 31, is among a growing number of South Koreans looking at the old, often neglected apartments with new perspectives — as a subject worth attention and documentation. [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The public restrooms in Seoul are being transformed with a new ‘universal design.’ The Seoul Metropolitan Government and its affiliated Universal Design Center said Wednesday that they had applied non-discriminatory ‘universal design’ for the public restrooms at three district community centers. Universal design refers to design principals make a [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government’s official digital map has newly added a feature showing the level of crowds at COVID-19 testing centers across the city, according to officials Monday. The Smart Seoul Map, available at the URL address https://map.seoul.go.kr/smgis2/short/6NjT7, was updated to reveal the level of crowds in line waiting [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Sunday that it will establish a city-wide public Internet of Things (IoT) network by 2023 and set up the operating platform at City Hall by the end of this year. The city government plans to collect a variety of data including that related to [...]