SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul Metro have announced plans to enhance safety measures for subway platforms to prevent falls. Recently, a 4-year-old boy fell through a gap at Chungmuro Station on Seoul Subway Line 3 while disembarking from the subway. Passengers heard his mother’s cries, stopped the subway [...]
UIJEONGBU, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province is coming up with ways to ensure the safety of personal mobility devices like e-scooters. The provincial office said Monday it will establish a comprehensive plan for the safe use of personal mobility devices next month, and create a joint consultative body for its execution. Previously, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it has developed the nation’s first industrial site safety designs that can be distinguished by individuals with color vision deficiency (CVD). At present, there are many cases where the safety colors used at industrial sites include red (prohibition) and green (guide), which cannot [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities are scrambling to ensure a safe game festival, which is expected to attract a massive number of visitors, following the Itaewon crowd crush. On the first day of the annual global game trade fair G-Star at the BEXCO exhibition center in the southeastern port city of Busan on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s traffic authority said Monday that it will launch research to map out safety instructions for personal mobility devices, like electric scooters, amid a hike in deaths of their riders in recent years. The Korea Road Traffic Authority said the project is aimed at setting new safety standards [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Railroad Research Institute said it has developed an unmanned automated system that monitors the safety of railroad facilities like bridges, using drones and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The system consists of drones, a mobile control center that operates the drones and software that automatically analyzes and detects [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday that it had mapped out a string of measures to ensure the safety of pedestrians around drive-thru stores that will take effect from this month. Drive-thrus are a common type of take-out service that allow customers to purchase products without leaving their cars. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday that it will introduce a new system to make it easier for taxi drivers to report to the police in emergency situations. The city government plans to install a separate button on the standard taxi card readers found in cabs citywide. Once the [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Monday it will revamp safety measures at local seaports in line with efforts to improve the working environment and prevent accidents. The move came as the number of accidents at local ports has been rising recently in sync with economic growth and rising trade [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the enforcement of the so-called severe disaster law, which is slated to take effect next January, South Korea’s major construction companies are beefing up investment in safety. Under the new legislation, business owners or CEOs are subject to at least one year in prison or up to [...]