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Local governments turn abandoned spaces into cultural hubs to revive urban areas

Cities across Korea are remaking neglected underpasses, empty facilities and vacant sites into galleries, parks and community spaces to draw visitors and breathe life into urban neighborhoods.

2026.7.13

Workers change a battery pack under an electric taxi inside a battery swap station.

Battery swapping speeds up electric taxi service

Workers replace a battery at an electric taxi battery-swapping station in Anyang, Gyeonggi, on July 2.

2026.7.2

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A poster released by police in search of two missing elementary school students, Woo Ye-seul and Lee Hye-jin. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Two girls left church to buy Christmas gifts. They never came home.

In 2007, Jeong Seong-hyeon murdered two girls, Woo Ye-seul and Lee Hye-jin, in Anyang. Despite his conviction and death sentence, he remains defiant and contests his guilt while on death row.

2025.11.2

The photo shows an ambulance. [JOONGANG ILBO]

Man dies after being struck by train in Gyeonggi's Anyang

A man in his 40s died after a train struck him near Myeonghak Station on Line No. 1 in Anyang, Gyeonggi, at around 11:40 p.m. on Wednesday.The train departed from Seodongtan Station in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, and was bound for Guro District.

2025.9.18

Anyang Mayor Choi Dae-ho, center, and participating students of annual “Hello, Anyang! Fam Tour” pose for a photo [ANYANG CITY GOVERNMENT]

Anyang shares culture with foreign students with annual 'Fam Tour'

The Anyang City Government organized its annual “Hello, Anyang! Fam Tour" for international students, enabling them to explore and connect with Korean culture.

2024.11.1

Members of the ″Anyang Tigers″ gang bow to its leaders as they leave the 80th birthday party of a gang member's mother. [GYEONGGI NAMBU PROVINCIAL POLICE]

'MZ' gangsters in Gyeonggi indicted for threatening rival hoodlum

"MZ" gangsters of the Gyeonggi-based gang known as the "Anyang Tigers" were indicted for making mass threats against a rival gangster.

2024.8.21

'Creature' by Lee Byung-chan [ANYANG FOUNDATION FOR CULTURE AND ARTS]

Quirky art fills abandoned animal center for 7th Anyang Public Art Project

An old, abandoned animal quarantine center in Anyang, Gyeonggi, with its shabby walls and painfully obvious lack of air conditioning, has been given a new breath of life as it has been turned into an exhibition full of quirky artworks.

2023.8.23

Nothing concrete yet

Cement trucks are parked at a ready-mixed concrete factory in Anyang, Gyeonggi, on Thursday, the eighth day of the strike by the Cargo Truckers Solidarity and the truckers' refusal to transport materials including concrete.

2022.12.1

Workers at Seoul National Cemetery in Dongjak District, southern Seoul, carry out disinfection work Monday. Health officials last week re-closed all public facilities in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi until June 14 to stem the spread of the coronavirus after a major cluster emerged at Coupang's distribution center in Bucheon, Gyeonggi. [YONHAP]

Clusters break out in small churches

Korean health authorities Monday reported more than 20 coronavirus infections from Protestant churches in Incheon and Gyeonggi, rekindling fears of outbreaks in religious congregations.

2020.6.1

Business owners in Itaewon-dong, central Seoul, spray disinfectant on the streets of Itaewon Wednesday as a cluster of infections linked to the area’s nightclubs and bars continues to swell. [NEWS1]

Hospital infections few, Itaewon cluster keeps growing

A Covid-19 hot spot at Samsung Medical Center in Gangnam District, southern Seoul, appears to be under control after four nurses tested positive earlier this week, but the cluster of infections that began in nightclubs in Itaewon continues to grow.

2020.5.20