CHUNCHEON, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As part of the city’s public art project, Chuncheon, the capital of Gangwon Province, set up a wall painting inside a tunnel walkway located in the heart of the city. The city embarked on a wall painting project inside a tunnel across Toegyecheon-gil to offer work opportunities to local [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI) said Tuesday it had developed new technology that can drastically reduce the noise that is generated when an express train enters a tunnel. Field testing of the new technology has also been completed. The noise is generated due to the compression of the [...]
OKCHEON, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A tunnel left abandoned for 15 years after a nearby expressway was shut down in 2002 has been renovated into a massive plant farm. Okcheon Tunnel, located in Okcheon County, North Chungcheong Province, is now lit with pink LED lights. A local agricultural firm signed a contract with the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Engineering & Construction Co., a major builder in South Korea, said Sunday a consortium that it’s part of has been named the preferred bidder for a 1 billion-pound (US$1.2 billion) project to build a tunnel across the main river in London. The multinational consortium RiverLinx, comprised of SK [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent years, cable television channel OCN has made a name for itself by producing smart and well-polished original crime procedurals, including last year’s “Squad 38″ and this year’s critically acclaimed series “Voice.” Continuing this tradition, the network is set to premiere a new crime show titled “Tunnel,” which [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In an effort to beautify its road facilities, the JinYoung National Territory Management Office (JNTMO) of the Busan Regional Construction Management Administration announced Wednesday that it will launch a program to renovate structures such as tunnels and bridges using a technique called “Story Doing”. Story doing is a concept [...]