CHUNCHEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Abandoned dogs in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, living under poor conditions, have found a new home. The city opened a new animal shelter Wednesday that was created at a cost of about 2 billion won (US$1.62 million), including state funds, provincial funds and municipal funds, to improve animal welfare. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A district in Seoul has introduced a sidewalk air pollution shelter for the first time in the country. Seoul’s Gangnam District on Wednesday installed a “fine dust free shelter” at the bus stop in front of the Galleria Department Store on a trial base. The facility removes more than [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — There are places where cats that are old, sick and cannot live with people because they are too fierce to live with are gathered to be taken care of until they die. The Senior Cat Center, a cat hospice shelter in Suwon houses 15 cats, including aging cats, cats [...]
GANGNEUNG, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — According to the city of Gangneung in Gangwon Province on Sunday, the current shelter for abandoned dogs is overcrowded, and plans are in the works to expand the facilities by the end of this year. The city plans to build a 660-square-meter environmentally-friendly building to protect abandoned dogs and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is mounting over allegations that a local animal shelter has ruthlessly been putting its animals to sleep, sparking calls for an overhaul of the animal protection system and stringent measures against animal abuse. A former employee of Care, one of the largest animal shelters in South Korea, blew [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Among this month’s three “new architectural technologies” chosen by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport was a restroom design that can function as a shelter in case of fire. In the new design, a water barrier is created at the restroom’s entrance by sprinklers during an emergency, preventing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Animal rights organization Tinker Bell Project announced Thursday that it had installed four “soup kitchen” shelters for stray cats around the National Assembly building in Seoul on January 4. The shelters, in the form of two-story mini-cabins, will provide a resting place for the animals to escape the cold [...]
SEOUL, Nov.10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced that deserted phone booths will be modified into ‘relief booths’. A ‘relief booth’ is a phone booth where citizens can take shelter when they are threatened criminally. After an individual enters and presses a button, the door closes automatically and sirens go off. Through [...]