SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government said Thursday it has rejected an application from a LGBTQ festival organizer to establish a non-profit foundation, citing concerns of social conflict if the request were to be approved. The city government sent a letter Wednesday to the Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) Organizing Committee [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it had completed the installation of public Wi-Fi at 2,340 bus stops with platforms as part of efforts to help lower citizens’ telecom expenditures. The public Wi-Fi service was installed first at major median bus lanes, including those on major thoroughfares in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the growing voices for the establishment of gender-equal organization culture, the Seoul city government plans to expand the number of night shifts offered to female civil servants. At the Seoul Waterworks Authority, women will be encouraged to work the night shift. Night shifts require workers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Sunday it will remove fare collection boxes from more than 170 Seoul city buses starting in October to test the operation of an all-digital fare payment system. Fare boxes from 171 buses on eight Seoul city lines run by two companies will be removed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the city’s vast subway system, announced the opening of the 12th Seoul Metro International Subway Film Festival on Tuesday. This festival, slated to run until Sept. 12, brings together 1,093 films from 63 countries, the largest ever in its history. The films on the [...]
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 [...]