SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s central district of Yongsan will launch a compensation program for those who pick up cigarette butts tossed on the street, officials said Thursday. Under this program, the Yongsan Ward office will issue compensation depending on the weight of the cigarette butts collected. The amount of compensation is set [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Yongsan Ward has placed markers on four more historical sites to promote awareness of the district’s history. The signboards measure 48 centimeters wide and 170 cm long and display descriptions of the sites in central Seoul, according to the ward office. One of them marks part of an [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Yongsan Ward, one of Seoul’s most multinational districts, announced Thursday it plans to pick 30 foreign residents as honorary community leaders. The plan is part of the ward office’s efforts to encourage more foreign residents to take part in community affairs and boost communication among residents in the central [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The pullout of the headquarters of the United States Forces Korea (USFK) from the Yongsan base in the heart of Seoul in June 2018 has created a bittersweet aftermath in the central Seoul district over the past year. On the bright side, the Yongsan area around the former USFK [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon took a look around the U.S. army base in Yongsan, Seoul yesterday before hopping on a motor vehicle to participate in a bus tour of the base. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in association with the city government of Seoul started offering bus [...]
YONGSAN GARRISON, Seoul, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is not the only thing that keeps Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), hard at work nowadays. The Yongsan base relocation is another tough task, probably a source of stress for the commander who often emphasizes the importance of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The I’Park Department Store located adjacent to Yongsan Station in Seoul will host the largest “futsal town” in South Korea. I’Park Department Store announced on December 14 that it has construction of five new futsal fields atop its expanded rooftop space have been completed. This brings the total number [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. military base in central Seoul has groundwater contaminated with harmful petroleum chemicals up to hundreds of times above the permissible limit, government reports showed Wednesday. The Ministries of Environment and Foreign Affairs revealed the environmental reports on the U.S. Yongsan base conducted twice earlier in the year, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — On August 27, a four-year saga that had pitted local residents and a growing number of government officials against South Korea’s horse racing establishment drew to a close, as the mayor of Seoul, the president of the Korea Racing Authority (KRA) and various politicians and luminaries shook hands to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A contaminant detected in groundwater beneath a U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) garrison in Seoul was above the permissible level, a government report showed Tuesday. The U.S. Army base in Yongsan, central Seoul, has long been suspected as the source of oil that has contaminated the nearby water and land. [...]