SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Last month, relatively warm weather led South Korea to record the lowest monthly snowfall on record for December, the meteorological agency said Sunday. The amount of snowfall reached 0.3 centimeter in December 2019, the lowest since weather authorities began to compile December data, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said. [...]
SOKCHO, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Mountain ranges in Gangwon Province, where this year’s first heavy snow warning was issued last Monday, have turned into a land of snow. Mount Seorak’s Daecheong Peak (1,708 meters) has been covered with beautiful shapes of rime ice, declaring the coming of winter. White snowflakes that now cover the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team will embark on a project to develop a system that can clear the snow from airport runways without requiring human labor. The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials announced on Tuesday that it will begin research on developing an unmanned snow removal system for [...]
TAEBAEK, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The 26th Mount Taebaek Snow Festival has been a surprising success despite a dry winter with little precipitation. The festival’s organizing committee announced on Saturday that more than 600,000 people had visited the festival as of last Friday. The festival attracted 200,000 visitors by January 20, reaching as many [...]
TAEBAEK, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The 24th Taebaek Snow Festival is set to kick off on Friday at Taebaeksan (Mount Taebaek) National Park. Although the area has seen less snow than usual in recent years, the park is most famous during the snowy season, welcoming half of its annual visitors during the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Biziwre) – Korean Internet giant Naver announced Tuesday that its video-sharing app Snow surpassed the 100-million mark in total downloads, setting a new milestone for the app, which has seen rapid growth in popularity in East Asian and Southeast Asian markets. Snow was launched in September 2015, and according to Naver, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The first snowstorm of this winter, on Wednesday, was bad news for a lot of the residents and travelers in the affected regions, but for AI quarantine officials, who have been struggling to contain the nationwide H5N6 virus, it was a pleasant omen. More than 14 million poultry have [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – November 22 in Korea is called “Soseol,” one of the 24 seasonal points on the traditional East Asian lunisolar calendar, when the first snow falls in the country. Soseol translates into “small snowfall” and comes after “Ipdong” (November 7), which marks the beginning of the winter season, [...]
POHANG, Jan.27 (Korea Bizwire) – The remote island of Ulleungdo was blanketed with 137.3 centimeters of snow from January 19 to January 25. Streets were blocked, and buses couldn’t run. Because of the wind, boats could not leave or approach the island. Fresh food such as fruits and vegetables ran out at the supermarkets, as [...]
SEJONG/JEJU, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju International Airport on South Korea’s southernmost resort island resumed operations Monday after being shut down by heavy snow for some 45 hours, the government said. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said an Eastar Jet B737-700 passenger jet with 149 people on board took off safely at [...]