SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul city government has launched a campaign to support flower farmers struggling to survive the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The floral industry has been suffering from a sharp decrease in demand, with special events cancelled and scaled down, since the onset of the new coronavirus pandemic early last [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the number of public transport passengers dropped sharply in Seoul last year, dealing a heavy blow to the finances of the bus companies that are operated under the semi-public management system. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, 1.45 billion passengers used the city’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government will test pet cats and dogs for COVID-19 if they show symptoms, an official said Monday. The new program will start the same day, several weeks after the country reported its first COVID-19 case involving a pet in a kitten in the southeastern city of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — People in Seoul spent less time working than usual and more time on media during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, a city government survey showed Thursday. According to the online survey of 1,000 Seoul citizens aged 18 to 69, people worked an average of 5 hours and 19 minutes [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Friday that some of its charnel houses will close during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus. The city-affiliated Seoul Facilities Corp. (SFC), which operates 15 cemeteries and memorial parks, will close five indoor charnel houses [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The accumulated membership of Seoul’s public bike service has surpassed 2.78 million, largely due to high demand for personal transport means amid the coronavirus pandemic, the city government said Wednesday. The tally translated into one in every four Seoul citizens using the city’s unmanned bike rental service, dubbed Ttaereungyi [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Wednesday that it will release a mobile app that offers a wide variety of information on public transport, including alerts that are issued when the user’s routes overlap with those of confirmed COVID-19 patients. The mobile app ‘My-T’ is scheduled to be released [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The increase in the number of coronavirus patients in the country last year resulted in more people riding Seoul’s public bicycles. Seoul reported a 24.3 percent increase in the number of customers using “Ttaereungyi,” the city government’s public bicycle service last year compared to the year before. The monthly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo District Public Health Center said Wednesday that five new smoking booths have been added to non-smoking streets in the financial district of Yeouido to minimize the risk of passive smoking while protecting the rights of smokers. The booths have an open design, allowing natural ventilation to prevent [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — An art installation shaped like a giant moon has been constructed on a dock on the Han River, the Seoul city government said Monday. The installation, named “Dalbitnodeul,” which means “Nodeul under the moonlight,” is made up of two circular metal structures, each 12 meters in diameter, adjacent to [...]