SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Wednesday issued a de facto business suspension order on clubs and bars across the city following COVID-19 infections linked to a bar in the ritzy neighborhood of Gangnam. “(I) issue an order on banning gatherings at ‘room salons,’ clubs and ‘colatheques’ until the government’s [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Households in Seoul will be required to install eco-friendly boilers when replacing old ones or getting a new boiler. Failing to do so will result in penalties for boiler suppliers. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Monday that it will begin a crackdown on suppliers that failed to install eco-friendly [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A walkthrough virus screening center for overseas entrants opened at a major sports complex in southeastern Seoul on Friday amid a continued increase in imported cases. The screening center, which Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon claimed could test up to 1,000 people per day, was set up at Seoul Sports [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — In its latest efforts to contain the new coronavirus, the Seoul city government said Friday that it has started providing taxis connecting Incheon International Airport to the city. The taxis drive passengers to health community centers near their homes or the Seoul Sports Complex in eastern Seoul, where a [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Friday it plans to take legal action against members of a Protestant church for violating the city’s administrative order not to hold mass gatherings to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The metropolitan government plans to file complaints against two pastors and a [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will preemptively prepare for changes in society as a whole caused by the coronavirus pandemic by utilizing citizens’ collective wisdom. The local government plans to overcome the current crisis caused by COVID-19 and come up with countermeasures against infectious diseases and social [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday that it will provide a total of 100,000 filter replaceable face masks to foreign residents who are sidelined from the government-controlled mask supply system amid the coronavirus outbreak. According to the municipal government, 100,000 sets of a reusable cotton mask with five filters [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A disused public bus garage will be transformed into a “compact city” where large urban forests, public houses and social overhead capital (SOC) are interwoven. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Housing and Communities Corp. on Monday unveiled a winning international design project to reform Jangji Public Bus [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — While the spread of the novel coronavirus continues unabated, autonomous districts in Seoul are making all-out efforts to ‘wage a war’ on COVID-19. District offices are in charge of the quarantine front and are working to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak in their community. District heads [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway services in the capital area will end an hour earlier starting in April, operators said Monday, to better contain the new coronavirus that has infected more than 900 in the wider Seoul area. Under the plan, subway lines No. 1 to 9, as well as the Ui-Sinseol line, [...]