SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Germany-based biotech giant Merck KGaA held a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new production line in the central city of Daejeon with a budget of 430 billion won, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The event came around a year after the biotechnology company signed a memorandum of understanding with [...]
DAEJEON, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A private dog shelter in Yuseong District, Daejeon housing 596 abandoned dogs is once again confronting the threat of demolition due to a zoning violation. The facility, known as Sion Shelter, was established nine years ago when its director, Oh Eun-sook, rescued 22 dogs being bred for human consumption on [...]
DAEJEON, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A district office in the central city of Daejeon had mistakenly warned on Wednesday about 70 fierce dogs breaking loose from a farm in the area, and police later found that only two breeding canines had escaped. The Dong Ward office in Daejeon had initially sent an emergency text [...]
DAEJEON, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Daejeon, a metropolitan city in South Korea, has the highest proportion of single-person households nationwide, according to the latest census data. As of 2022, 38.5 percent of households in the region consisted of just one individual, far exceeding the national average of 34.5 percent. While the image of a single-person [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – On the first day of the 2024, Daejeon’s Yuseong-gu Hanbit Tower Plaza came alive with the ’2024 Sunyang Maenmom Running Festival.’ This unique event, in which half-naked runners brave frigid winter temperatures, attracted over 6,000 participants, including 2,024 runners, along with their families, marking a vibrant start to the New [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The city government of Daejeon said Thursday that it will begin trials of an artificial intelligence (AI) quarantine robot to eliminate viruses, purify the air, and clean the floors in subway stations. The city plans to first deploy two robots each at two subway stations, before deploying a total of 10 robots [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Daejeon’s city government said Thursday that it had launched a surveillance system to analyze the sewage produced by households and factories as part of efforts to detect the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19 as early as possible. The analysis of virus detection and distribution through the inspection of [...]
DAEJEON, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed to monitor the abnormal behaviors of subway passengers in the central city of Daejeon. The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government and the Daejeon Express Transit Corp. jointly announced that the ‘AI Edge System for Urban Railroads’ was selected as a state-backed [...]
DAEJEON, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Daejeon said Friday it will operate city bee farms on the rooftops of four government buildings until July. Bee farms will be set up on the rooftops of Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall, the Institute of Health and Environment of Daejeon Metropolitan City, Chungnam National University and [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The 5th Daejeon Topless Marathon was held on New Year’s Day. At precisely 11 o’clock, 11 minutes, and 11 seconds on the morning of New Year’s Day, some 3,000 participants leaped at the starting signal at Gapcheon Expo Bridge in Daejeon. Participants were either topless or wearing short sleeves, [...]