The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will relax the income criteria for the “Double Hope Youth Savings Account,” a program through which the SMG returns double the savings amount through 100% matching. This year, the SMG will substantially expand the beneficiary count and select 7,000 new beneficiaries. The income criteria will be lowered from KRW 2.37...   Read more

Gyeongnidan-gil, which sits in the direction of Namsan Tunnel 3 from Exit 2 of Noksapyeong Station, is one of Itaewon’s trendiest streets. The official name of this street is Hoenamu-gil, and it gained its nickname Gyeongnidan-gil from the former division of the Ministry of National Defense’s Central Finance Corps called “Gyeongnidan.” The area became home...   Read more

Announcement of Top and Excellent Participants of Seoul’s Foreign Language Website Global Monitoring Group for the First Half of 2021 Thank you for your participation in Seoul’s foreign language website global monitoring group for the first half of 2021. We appreciate your valuable feedback and suggestions for the website, and will apply them in the...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will launch the city’s first project to support national and public childcare centers in Seoul with installation costs for ventilation systems to keep childcare centers safe from COVID-19. Air circulators will be installed at childcare centers where infants and children who are vulnerable to infections are crowded to lower levels...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is relaxing the income criteria for its young resident rent assistance program after having expanded the program’s scope to provide KRW 200,000 for up to ten months to young one-person households by more than five times compared to last year. The changed criteria will apply starting in the second half...   Read more

Ttareungi is the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s (SMG) public bicycle-sharing system through which bicycles can be conveniently rented and returned at citywide rental stations using a smartphone app. The SMG is currently operating 37,500 bicycles after having introduced this service with 400 bicycles during a pilot project in 2010. As for the rental stations, 239 have...   Read more

On July 23, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) appointed Paik Ji-ah, former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in Geneva, as the 20th Ambassador for International Relations. With her extensive knowledge, experience and professional expertise in the field of diplomacy, Ambassador Paik will provide advice on the SMG’s international exchange, such...   Read more

The public bicycles provided throughout the city of Seoul have seen a surge in popularity in the pandemic the equivalent of a third of the city’s population having signed up to use them now. The system is called Seoul Bike, or Ttareungyi, in Korean. The city says that as of the first half of this...   Read more

Temperatures hit another high today on this Friday, with some areas in South Korea reaching 37 degrees Celsius. And coping with this intense heat is much tougher for the homeless or the underprivileged. Kim Yeon-seung reports. The summer heat can feel brutal, especially for people living below the poverty line. The only shelter for some...   Read more

The city of Seoul has appointed Paik Ji-ah as new ambassador for international relations. As an expert of international relations, Paik is expected to help Seoul become a global city and show off Seoul’s innovative smart and green initiatives to the rest of the world. Paik is a South Korean ambassador who was formerly stationed...   Read more