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Social distancing level will elevate from level 1.5 to 2, effective midnight on Tue, Nov. 24. The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is declaring an “emergency pause period for 10 million citizens” starting from tomorrow until the end of the year and implementing Seoul-style precision disease control and prevention for 10 types of facilities in Seoul....   Read more

Dear Seoul citizens. This is Seo Jung-hyup, acting mayor of Seoul. As of midnight on Mon, Nov. 23, the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Seoul reached 7,625, an increase of 112 from the previous day. The increase has grown sharply since Wed, Nov. 18, and hit a record high in less than a week,...   Read more

The world-renowned robotics engineer Dennis Hong (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at University of California, Los Angeles) recently made a visit to Korea. He explained that he made this visit to his home country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic because he was “selected an honorary ambassador of Seoul.” Currently in the development of...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has published the Silent Book, an infographic training manual for occupational health and safety of migrant workers—the first of such kind in Korea. As it contains visuals and does not require interpretation or translation, it will be widely distributed to migrant construction workers who are not proficient in Korean. In...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has opened the 100th Seoul Kium daycare center as part of the city’s efforts to provide after-school and school-break daycare services to elementary school children of double-income or single-parent households. It has been two years and five months since the opening of the first center for pilot operation in June...   Read more

Dennis Hong, a world-renowned robotics engineer, will be appointed as an honorary ambassador of Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has plans to raise the status of the city by appointing a robotics expert in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and promote its relevant policies to rebuild Seoul as a global smart city....   Read more