SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea came under the grip of the season’s harshest weather Thursday as a cold wave combined with heavy snow and strong winds brought traffic to a crawl and grounded planes and vessels. At 7 a.m., the temperature in Seoul dropped to minus 16.1 C, with a wind chill [...]
BUSAN, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite being the middle of winter, some summer migratory birds have remained in the vicinity of the southern port city of Busan as the weather has remained relatively warm due to climate change – the current cold snap notwithstanding. Hoopoes, which arrive at the southern coast of South Korea [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hoarfrost, tiny white ice crystals, covered the Soyang River in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province on Wednesday after temperatures dropped to new lows. Mist floats over the river once the cold, humidity, and wind meet the right conditions, covering trees with hoarfrost. Photographers flocked to the river’s banks early in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced Monday that it will launch a national winter season fine dust management program next month centered around reducing the amount of air pollutants during the season. The environment ministry said the program will run from December to March of next year and will center around the [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Winter snow swept over festivals in Gangwon Province, adding to the beauty of Gangwon’s mountainous landscape. Visitors coming to the Inje Icefish Festival, Mount Taebaek Snow Festival, Pyeongchang Trout Festival, and others enjoyed the white landscape covered with snow. This week, the Inje Icefish Festival, Gangwon’s only festival that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Unseasonably warm winter weather is wreaking havoc for the organizers of various ice and snow festivals set to begin later this month in the mountainous northeastern province of Gangwon. Traditionally, Gangwon, located east of Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, is a mecca of winter sports and snow and ice [...]
SEOGWIPO, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The 20th International Seogwipo Winter Sea Penguin Swimming Festival will be held on January 1 at Jeju’s Jungmun Saekdal Beach. The event invites participants to challenge the winter sea as a gesture to throw away the worries of the previous year into the ocean, and make a new year’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — PyeongChang, the venue of the 2018 Winter Olympics, is gearing up to host two winter festivals to attract tourists from home and abroad. The county government of PyeongChang, about 180 kilometers east of Seoul, said Friday it is putting the finishing touches on the 13th PyeongChang Trout Festival and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The so-called “energy-poor” who cannot heat properly due to family circumstances are forced to live under almost uninhabitable circumstances during the winter, according to a recent survey, The Korea NGOs Energy Network, a group of energy-related civic groups, surveyed a total of 295 households in six cities and provinces [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it will suspend the operation of coal-powered plants over the winter to reduce fine dust emissions. Eight to 15 coal power plants will suspend operations from Sunday to Feb. 29, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Other plants will be instructed to [...]