YONGIN, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A municipal government will launch a pilot project to prevent so-called smartphone zombies, or “smombies,” by completely blocking mobile data usage in school zones. The Yongin city government said Wednesday it had installed 120 special terminals to restrict smartphone functions in an area within 1.5 kilometers of the school [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, with plans to establish an industrial complex for semiconductors, is looking into the best practices of companies in the Silicon Valley. Yongin mayor Baek Kun-ki visited the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara in California from July 29 to 31 to discuss [...]
YONGIN, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid frequent conflicts between business operators and residents nationwide over the creation of new animal burial facilities, the city of Yongin in Gyeonggi Province has been pushing for the establishment of animal burial facilities. Yongin has decided to build a cultural center and a cemetery for pets, and will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Friday it will move to lift regulations to pave the way for the country’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc.’s to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it plans to request the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has officially expressed interest in creating a semiconductor cluster in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, about 50 kilometers south of Seoul. A special purpose company has submitted a letter of investment intent, for investing in Yongin, to the city’s [...]
SUWON, Jan. 22 (Korea Biziwire) — The city of Suwon will kickstart a social media campaign with meal and beverage vouchers offered as prizes in a bid to gather data on the troublesome flocks of rooks that descend on the city during winter. On January 22, Suwon announced that residents of Osan, Yongin and Hwaseong [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Following in the footsteps of popular attractions “Horror Village”, “Horror Maze” and “Horror Safari 2014″, Everland will unveil another fear-and-fun inducing activity called “Blood City” on September 7. The legend of Blood City is chronicled in 100,000 square meters of “urban” sprawl encompassing the Alpine Area, Amazon Express and [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In commemoration of the 72nd Independence Day of South Korea, a statue of a ‘comfort girl’ symbolizing victims of Japanese sex slavery before and during the Second World War, was erected in the Seoul suburb of Yongin City. The committee that had commissioned the statue was in attendance for [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s first indoor skydiving facility is coming to Yongin, a city located some 40 kilometers south of Seoul. According to the city government, it recently signed a business agreement with FlyStation Korea, a leisure sports company based in Russia, for a 7,603-square-meter facility to be built by [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean city of Yongin has been pushing ahead with a project to bid for the headquarters of the main intergovernmental body for coffee, the Yongin municipal government said Tuesday. The municipality, just south of Seoul, said it will coordinate with agriculture and foreign ministries and [...]