ULLEUNG, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A monument erected to commemorate the nation’s inaugural swim between Ulleung Island and Dokdo, which was lost during a typhoon, has been reconstructed. Dokdo Saranghoe (Association of Love for Dokdo), a civic group that defends the Dokdo islets, which Japan claims as its territory, on Tuesday held an unveiling [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of the eastern island of Ulleung are suffering huge inconvenience as the only general hospital on the island is having difficulty securing specialized medical doctors in some areas of treatment. With 13 public health physicians, the medical center has covered nine areas of treatment. This year, however, the [...]
POHANG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A large car ferry that is scheduled to be deployed on the route between Pohang in North Gyeongsang Province and Ulleung Island has made its first public appearance. Local cruise operator Ulleung Cruise’s brand-new car ferry New Shidao Pearl arrived at the terminal of Youngilman Port in Pohang on [...]
ANDONG, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — North Gyeongsang Province said Wednesday that it will host a skyline tour that departs from Daegu Airport, flies over South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and nearby Ulleung Island, and returns to Daegu on National Liberation Day. A light jet will depart from Daegu Airport at 8:15 a.m. on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Sunday it transported a batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Ulleung Island in the East Sea to help inoculate local residents, where access through commercial transportation is relatively time consuming and difficult. The ministry said a batch of AstraZeneca’s vaccine from the government’s vaccine storage warehouse [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists has found that a batch of animal bones discovered from Ulleung Island belonged to sea lions, which went extinct decades ago on the island, the maritime ministry said Sunday. The announcement came after a group of local scientists found 20 pieces of animal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin the construction of an airport on Ulleung Island later this month, with an aim to open the country’s second island airport in 2025, the transport ministry said Sunday. The government will inject 665.1 billion won (US$597 million) to build the Ulleung airport with a 1,200 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Health Organization (WHO), which marked Dokdo and Ulleung Island, the easternmost territories of South Korea, on a Japanese map but not on a Korean map, still remains reluctant to correct the error. Cyber diplomacy organization Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) said Monday that the WHO still [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — After the World Health Organization (WHO) omitted Dokdo and Ulleung Island on a recent map of Korea, the agency has been met with strong complaints from a Korean civic group to correct its mistake. However, for more than two months, it has refused to change the map, even with [...]
ULLEUNG, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The remote Ulleung Island, 120 kilometers off the east coast of South Korea, turned white as a blanket of snow stacked up as high as 1 meter from Sunday to Tuesday. Ulleung County in North Gyeongsang Province and other local agencies made use of snowplows and excavators to clean [...]