Korea National Railway (KR) is committed to projects linking railway routes in the Seoul metropolitan area. Currently, 15 railway construction projects whose whole costs amount to 30.4 trillion won have been implemented in the Seoul metropolitan area, the oldest, the biggest region in which the…

Chairman Lee Chun-woo of Korea Fisheries Resources Agency (FIRA) speaks at the special session, dubbed “Management of Maritime Ecosystem and Recovery of Marine Ecosystem,” during the 2022 Wando International Seaweed Symposium (2022 WISS) held in May.Korea Fisheries Resources Agency (FIRA) particip…

President Yoon Suk-yeol delivers his key-note speech at a meeting on the direction of the new government’s economic policies at Pangyo 2nd Techno Valley in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, on June 16. (Photo: Presidential Office)President Yoon Suk-yeol said, “The harder and the more we face a crisis, the mo…

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon poses in front of the Seoul City Hall as he takes office after he was reelected in the June local election. (Photo: SMG)The ruling People Power Party (PPP) achieved a sweeping victory in local elections held on June 1, grabbing 12 out of 17 metropolitan mayoral and provincial …

Gyeonggi Gov.-elect Kim Dong-yeon presides over a first meeting of the emergency economic countermeasure committee on June 17. (Photo: Transition Committee for Gov.-elect Kim)The transition committee for Gyeonggi Gov.-elect Kim Dong-yeon is inaugurating an emergency economic response regime amid sig…

A whole view of the Ttukdo Tap Water Purification Center of the Seoul Waterworks Authority. (Photos: Seoul Waterworks Authority)Seoul is seeking to become the world’s first city to obtain the “Seal of Excellence for Urban Water Management,” which will be introduced by UNESCO in 2023 or later.&nbs…

Korea Land and Housing Corp. (LH) will build a tightly knit housing ladder structure by supplying 99,000 public rental housing units this year. LH has been evaluated to help people in low- and middle-income brackets move up the public rental housing ladder and give them opportunities to raise a…

A view of K-water headquarters in Daejeon. (Photos: K-water)Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-water) has introduced a robotic process automation (RPA) in earnest to reinvent ways of working through building a digital work environment. RPA is a work automation technology using robotic software of c…

(from left) Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, Deputy Prime Minister-MOEF Minister Chu Kyung-ho, Minister Lee Chang-yang of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon, Minister Park Jin of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Won Hee-ryong of the Ministry of Land, Infr…