SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul City Government will be holding the 2019 Ultra Trail Running Race (Seoul 100K) jointly with the Korean Alpine Federation on Saturday and Sunday. Some 2,700 participants, including 110 foreigners from 32 countries, will compete in a 100-kilometer cross-country race over mountains, hills, and trails. Image Credit: Hyundai [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will carry out a pilot project to collect potted plants, transfer them to recyclable pots, and re-parcel out them to social welfare facilities and public organizations. The city plans to test-run the project for Seongbuk and Dobong districts this year, and expand it to all [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual Seoul Silver Grass Festival is set to open later this week, offering visitors a chance to take in the golden brown autumn scene, the city government said Tuesday. This year’s festival will take place from Oct. 18-24 at Haneul Park in western Seoul, according to the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced Saturday that it will create guidelines to improve the gender wage gap. In the future, the city will reorganize the gender equality wage implementation guidelines of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family to suit the city and develop self-diagnosis tables that can [...]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Teledyne e2v, a global manufacturer of RF, Microwave and Semiconductor products and solutions will participate in the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (ADEX) on October 15 to 20, 2019. Please visit Teledyne e2v on booth B32 to find out more about its high reliability semiconductor and microwave [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Agency and Enomad, a South Korean startup, plan to hold a special program on eco-friendly energy from October 12 to 20. The event, titled the ‘Cheonggyecheon Energy Fishing Ground’, invites participants to use a mobile hydroelectric generator to ‘catch’ hidden energy in the Cheonggyecheon Stream. Participants [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government has won an international award for its renewable energy project as a measure to address climate change, city officials said Friday. The city’s effort to expand facilities for solar power generation, known as “Solar City Seoul,” was chosen as a category winner for Renewable Energy [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A large drone festival will take place at a Han River park in Seoul this weekend, offering citizens rare opportunities to enjoy the latest and future technologies of unmanned flying objects, municipal officials said Tuesday. The Seoul metropolitan government said it and the transportation ministry will jointly hold the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Monday appointed five foreign social media influencers its new public relations ambassadors. The online stars will promote the South Korean capital overseas on their highly popular YouTube, Instagram and other social media pages for one year. The new envoys include VRZO, a Thai entertainment [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The siblings in Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes-winning film “Parasite” may not have to squat down in their basement-level apartment looking for Wi-Fi signal anymore. That is if they go out to a nearby park, parking lot or public facility to use the free Wi-Fi provided by the Seoul [...]