SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Shop owners in Hambak Village, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, which is home to a significant foreign population, have come together to demand protection for their business rights. On September 18, more than 50 members of the Task Force for the Survival Rights of Local Shop Owners in Hambak Village gathered in front [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 1883 Incheon McGang (fried chicken and beer) Party took place on Thursday at Incheon Port, the city government and the Incheon Tourism Organization said. The number 1883 represents the year when the port was opened. The event was anticipated to attract approximately 3,000 foreign tourists from 10 countries, [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The western port city of Incheon is setting out to launch a special project aimed at turning the city’s international business district of Songdo into a bilingual city where you can use both Korean and English. The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZ) announced on Thursday that it made [...]
INCHEON, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The western port city of Incheon will start operating a new digital signboard system to inform bus drivers whether passengers are waiting at bus stops from late this month. If passengers push a button installed at bus stops, the digital signboard displays a notice text saying ‘passengers are on [...]
INCHEON, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A beautiful event is going viral in which a group of citizens voluntarily worked together to remove liquor bottles that fell on the road from a truck. Last Monday afternoon, dozens of soju (distilled liquor) boxes loaded in a 1-ton truck fell on the road when the truck turned [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul citizens choose to move to neighboring Incheon and Gyeonggi Province not just to find cheap, affordable homes but to move to a new, quality residences, a survey showed Thursday. The Seoul Institute conducted a survey of 2,085 residents in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province who had moved in [...]
INCHEON, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education said Thursday it will launch a virtual reality (VR)-based safety education program for students living on islands during the period from April to November of this year. The education will be offered to groups of fifth and sixth-grade students and middle and [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Incheon Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will install large artificial fish reefs in its sea area as part of efforts to cultivate fishery resources as well as to protect the marine environment. After detailed design and consultation with authorities for use of the sea area, the city government [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A car ferry set sail from South Korea’s western port of Incheon to the country’s southern resort island of Jeju on Friday in the resumption of the route in more than seven years following the deadly sinking of the Sewol ferry. The 27,000-ton Beyond Trust was to arrive at [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The largest ‘blood donation house’ in the region has opened in Songdo International City, Incheon, welcome news when the coronavirus pandemic is leaving blood supplies dangerously low. The Songdo Center, the fifth blood donation facility in the city, sits on the fifth floor of Triple Street D-dong, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu [...]