ULSAN, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest automaker, launched a hydrogen bus on a regular route in Ulsan for the first time in the nation after a one-year trial period, the industry ministry said Monday. The hydrogen fuel cell bus began carrying passengers on a 56-kilometer track twice a day [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to the fall of the shipbuilding industry in Ulsan, tax collected in the city’s Dong-gu district has declined sharply, causing setbacks to various government projects. In addition, government officials may not be receiving overtime fees and other benefits that were paid in the past. According to the Dong-gu [...]
ULSAN, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An arboretum near Taehwa River, designated as a “local garden” by the city of Ulsan earlier in the year, is dyed in purple hues after lily turfs came into full bloom in the area. The spectacular scene has been impressing visitors as the blooming flowers create an illusion of [...]
ULSAN, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Ulsan has chosen the shores off Seosaeng-myeon as the optimal location to install floating wind turbines for a trial run for the first time in South Korea. The city has decided to test an offshore wind farm next year as part of a new innovative [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of taxi passengers heading to Ulsan Bridge to commit suicide continues to rise, local police authorities have asked taxi companies in the region to refuse to accept passengers who choose the bridge as their destination. Yesterday, the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency sent an official document explaining [...]
ULSAN, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A family of Indian spot-billed ducks that appeared at Hyundai Motor’s Ulsan factory was handed over to a wildlife rescue center after being taken care of by company employees. According to Hyundai employees, a mother duck and her nine ducklings appeared near the main factory building around the middle [...]
SEJONG, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has designated Ulsan, Geoje, Mokpo and several other regions, home to the country’s shipbuilders and related industries, as an emergency response zone to provide job support and tax incentives as these areas are reeling from high unemployment, the commerce ministry said Tuesday. The designation came as local [...]
ULSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Removed from their home of seven years after the appearance of an unexpected predator, a family of geese are back where they belong on the campus grounds of UNIST, a science and technology research university located in the southeastern city of Ulsan. Originally a family of seven, only four [...]
ULSAN, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Though whale meat that is illicitly procured and sold is thought of negatively by South Korean consumers, they buy it without having the means of confirming whether the meat has been gotten through legal channels.” Bradley Tatar, a professor at UNIST and the first non-Korean scholar to analyze Ulsan’s [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The carcass of a humpback whale discovered by a fishing boat is likely to end up on the trash heap, as the individual who found the dead animal tied up in fishing nets has adamantly turned down entreaties from whale researchers for the “catch” to be donated to science. [...]