SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government plans to launch a helium balloon ride in the city’s western Yeouido district in June, allowing passengers to view the capital’s scenery at a 150-meter altitude, officials said Wednesday. Seoul plans to begin operating the tethered balloon rides at Yeouido Park by the end of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Tuesday announced a new future vision for its southwestern region, which is considered relatively underdeveloped and depressed compared to other regions of the capital. The vision calls for transforming the region’s manufacturing-centered space into a future high-tech and convergence industrial cluster and adding leisure, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A photo exhibition commemorating the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and Italy will open in Seoul next week, featuring about 70 photos and video materials showing their bilateral ties, a national museum said Friday. The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History said it will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past decade, Seoul has seen an exodus of 5.47 million people, a significant population shift that highlights changing urban dynamics in South Korea’s capital. Statistics Korea reports a net outflow of 860,000 residents, with only 4.61 million people moving to Seoul during the same period, from 2014 to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government on Friday opened a welcome lounge promoting the city’s new slogan, “Seoul, My Soul,” in a popular tourist destination in central Seoul, known for its preservation of traditional Korean houses called hanok. The promotion set up in Bukchon Lounge, a sample hanok house the city [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul is set to introduce its inaugural overpass park in 2027, spanning 10,000 square meters over the Olympic Expressway from Banpobon-dong to Banpo Han River Park in Seocho District. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced plans on February 1 to develop the new park and cultural facilities, incorporating the overpass park [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Boats will run in the Han River like buses starting in October on a seven-stop route between the northwestern district of Magok and the southeastern district of Jamsil, the Seoul city government said Thursday. The Hangang River Bus service will reduce the travel time between Jamsil and the financial [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on January 28 that it is initiating a ‘City-District Integrated Link Service,’ enabling the borrowing and returning of toys and childcare items from the Seoul Toy Library located in Daebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, across all 25 district toy libraries in Seoul. The Seoul Toy Library, which first [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Thursday to make sweeping improvements to commuter transport in the Seoul metropolitan area by extending express rail networks and adding new bus lanes and double-decker electric buses. Yoon made the remark during a government-public debate on people’s livelihood issues, the sixth in a series, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Morning temperatures in Seoul fell to minus 14 C, with apparent temperatures of minus 21.7 C, on Tuesday as the latest cold wave continued to grip South Korea countrywide. The cold wave that struck the country the previous day is expected to further freeze the nation, keeping daytime temperatures [...]