SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Ttareungi, public bicycles managed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, have been used 30 million times 4 years after the service was launched. There are currently 1.6 million Ttareungi members, which is 1 in 6 Seoulites. Roughly hald of the average bicycle usage each day is concentrated on rush hour [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A festival for vegans will kick off in Seoul this weekend, offering yoga classes, food markets and talks for people who have embraced the eco-friendly lifestyle. The 7th Vegan Festival is scheduled for Nov. 2-3 at Culture Tank, a petroleum tank site-turned-cultural venue in western Seoul, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual lantern festival will light up the Seoul city center this week with mulberry paper lanterns in the shape of widely loved fairy-tale characters, the city government said Thursday. The 2019 Seoul Lantern Festival will kick off on Friday for a 17-day run over the Cheonggye Stream that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A rejuvenation project for the Changsin-Sungin neighborhood in Seoul’s Jongno District is entering its final phase with completion slated for the end of this year. Once a major hub of South Korea’s garment industry, Changsin-Sungin had since deteriorated into a poor, deserted part of the city until in 2014, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has announced plans to install sensors that collect fine dust information throughout the city. The city announced on Tuesday it will install 2,500 “S-DoT·Smart Seoul Data of Things” sensors that will collect noise, fine dust and ultraviolet information by 2022. To begin, the SMG [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Want to stroll down rustic riverside walkways and enjoy autumnal colors without getting out of Seoul? Seoul’s municipal officials in charge of maintaining public parks alongside the Han River seem to have good recommendations for romantic walk enthusiasts. The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Hangang Project Headquarters on Saturday announced a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s last surviving dog slaughterhouses have finally been shut down after constant pressure from the mayor. The result comes after a year and two months of crackdowns, pressure, and convincing by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The city announced on Thursday that the last three dog slaughterhouses in downtown Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government aims to have more than 4,000 hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) on its roads by 2022 as part of efforts to increase demand for environment-friendly cars, city officials said Thursday. To this end, the local government also plans to increase the number of hydrogen charging stations [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Wednesday it will more than quadruple the number of recipients of its monthly youth employment promotion subsidy and create a new housing rent subsidy for young people next year. Under the new youth welfare policy announced by Mayor Park Won-soon in a town hall [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul and its adjacent metropolitan areas kicked off preliminary measures to reduce fine dust air pollution on Monday, the first such steps taken this autumn. A set of preliminary measures are being taken in the public sector to cut fine dust in a proactive manner when there is a [...]