SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemicals maker SKC Inc. and Germany-based chemical firm BASF are close to clinching a deal later this year to build a hydrogen peroxide plant in the southern industrial city of Ulsan, company officials said Thursday. SKC, a chemical unit under SK Group, has sought to use BASF’s [...]
ULSAN, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The local government of Ulsan is looking into employing unmanned aircraft to help find whales for whale-watching tours. Since drones can have difficulty operating in high winds, the city is considering the use of unmanned helicopters. The unmanned helicopters or drones will survey the sea first, and once whales are discovered, [...]
ULSAN, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Ulsan’s many attractions are rapidly making it a hot spot for family travel. According to the Ulsan Metropolitan Government, approximately 11,000 guests stayed at its three largest accommodations including Hyundai Hotel, and 80 percent of them came to Ulsan with their children. City officials explain that the large number [...]
ULSAN, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Ulsan coastguard officers have announced that they rescued a Loggerhead turtle in the East Sea off the coast of Gijang-gun in the city of Busan. The turtle is 93 centimeters in length, between 300 and 350 kilograms in weight, and is estimated to be 100 years old. It was [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Chemical is acting fast to recover from the Ulsan chemical plant explosion that killed 6 people on July 3, as the company promised the maximum compensation possible and quickly stopped operating production lines at the plant. Kim Chang-bum, CEO of Hanwha Chemical, publically apologized for the tragedy, and [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Six workers were killed and another one was injured Friday when an explosion occurred at a chemical plant in the southeastern coastal city of Ulsan, fire officials said. The blast occurred at around 9:19 a.m. when the workers were doing welding work on a storage tank containing waste at [...]
ULSAN, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Whale Culture Town in Jangsaengpo, Ulsan, has attracted more than 20,000 visitors in less than two months after it was reopened on May 15. The attendance figures are particularly notable, as the results were achieved after the widespread outbreak of the MERS virus in Korea, and the whale [...]
ULSAN, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ulsan’s unique emergency dispatch system, called ‘Pumbulance,’ which consists of a pump car and an ambulance dispatched to an emergency at the same time, recently saved a life and proved that the system is effective and can provide fast treatment to emergency patients. Under the Pumbulance system, a pump [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s first whale themed park, called ‘Whale Culture Town’, will be completed on May 18 in Ulsan. The 27.2 billion (US$ 25.2 million) project from Ulsan’s Nam-gu Office has a square, a whale sculpture park, an underwater plant garden and a park which looks like the inside of a [...]
ULSAN, Korea, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Nambu Police Station in Ulsan, a southeastern industrial city, fined two gangsters 50,000 won (US$45.5) each after they showed off their tattoos at a sauna, in violation of the Punishment of Minor Offenses Act. According to the police, on April 12 the two gangsters went to a [...]