SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has opened a ‘JUMP Augmented Reality (AR) Zoo’ in Seoul’s Olympic Park and Yeouido Park. Visitors can open the ‘JUMP AR’ app on their smartphone and view the grass field in the park to see ‘giant dragons’ and other cute miniature-sized animals [...]
GWANGJU, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The management office of Uchi Park in Gwangju has begun to restore the vitality and energy of animals exhausted by the sweltering heat. Veterinarians and zookeepers at the park’s zoo have been offering customized summer survival diets considering animal characteristics since Monday when heat wave warnings were issued. Asian [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on Monday that it will start developing the first comprehensive management plan for aquariums to create facilities that are safe for both people and animals and expand their functions. The comprehensive plan is in accordance with the act on the management of zoos and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A zoo displayed four Siberian tiger siblings, born in May this year, to the public on Friday as part of efforts to preserve the endangered species. The cubs were born at the zoo of Seoul Grand Park to a couple of Siberian tigers with internationally accredited pedigrees — a [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — People have continued to cherish the memory of Pporongi, the puma that was shot and killed after escaping from Daejeon O-World. A framed photo of the puma alongside a bouquet of artificial white chrysanthemums and commemorative messages were found at the entrance to the zoo yesterday. The items were [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — After the death of Pporongi, a puma that had called a zoo in Daejeon its home before being shot and killed after escaping from its cage, public sentiment is highly negative due to the nature of how officials tried to handle the situation. As many start to question whether [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal rights activist group CARE is pushing for a manual that would allow zookeepers to better handle animals that escape from their cages in response to an incident in Daejeon where a puma had to be shot after escaping from its cage. In a press released, CARE stated that [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of incidences in which dangerous animals have escaped from zoos in Daejeon have begun to strike fear in the residents of the city. Because the cases were due to poor facility management, critics have said more realistic measures need to be set in place to rectify the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A male elephant previously known to be healthy and housed at Seoul Grand Park, a popular zoo in South Korea, died suddenly on Sunday, zoo officials revealed yesterday. The Asian elephant named Gazaba, born in 2004 in Sri Lanka, had made the zoo its home since 2010 when it [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The first baby elephant born at Seoul Children’s Grand Park in 23 years has been named Kori by a committee of children, park officials said Friday. After Kori was born to a pair of elephants from Cambodia — 28-year-old male Camdori and 34-year-old female Camsuni — on January 27, [...]