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 [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Wednesday the city will reduce bus and subway schedules and expand COVID-19 testing to fight the recent resurgence of the virus amid a record high number of cases. At a press briefing, Oh said bus schedules will be scaled back starting Thursday and subway [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday it will ban drinking at Han River parks every night between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. starting the next day. The ban was announced Sunday as part of the central government’s toughened social distancing guidelines for the capital area, which has recently seen [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one third of adults living in the city of Seoul haven’t engaged in sexual intercourse in the last 12 months, a recent survey showed. Yum Yoo-sik, a sociology professor at Yonsei University, together with infectious disease professor Choi Jun-yong conducted a survey of 2,182 men and women [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul has suffered its largest population decline in five years, with the soaring housing prices likely driving people out of the capital city, data showed Sunday. According to figures compiled by the Ministry of Interior and Safety and provided to People Power Party Rep. Tae Young-ho, Seoul had a [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to introduce a new project later this year whereby coffee shops will offer customers multi-use cups for take-out orders. The new project involves customers paying a small deposit at the store to take out drinks in a multi-use cup, which can be returned anytime [...]