Category: Busan News

While South Korea is struggling with a low birth rate, Busan’s Buk-gu district said that it will provide 10 million won in childbirth incentives to families who give birth to a  third child, starting on January 1^st of next year.

This is the highest amount of funds provided to individuals from the districts and counties in the country.

The childbirth incentive funds will be received if a family of three or more children are registered as residents at the same address in the Bukgu District.

The childbirth incentive of 10 million won will be paid in installments over the span of 12 months.

Befm, Busan’s only English radio station, is kicking off their new season today with Steve Hatherly as the host. The show will also undergo some scheduling changes.

Steve Hatherly has been growing a fanbase over the past ten years, ever since he hosted “The Steve Hatherly Show” at TBS efm. He has also hosted a number of successful Youtube shows.

His new show on Befm, titled “The Steve Hatherly Reboot” will air between 2 pm and 4 pm and feature lots of great music.

The Chinese program will be moving to a new time slot which is 8 pm – 10pm. The Vietnamese program, “Hello Vietnam” will expand its weekly show time from 2 hours to 4 hours. The new show, called, “News Rewind” will tell their listeners about the current affairs that are happening in Busan from 10 am to 11 am. These changes will start today (December 12th).

Befm can be broadcasted via FM 90.5 in Busan and via FM 103.3 in Busan’s Gijang and Noksan areas. Befm can also be streamed via their app.

Pusan National University (also called Busan National University) is earnestly pushing for the establishment of a veterinary college.

PNU recently submitted a request to the Ministry of Education to establish a veterinary university in Busan.  

“We plan to have educational facilities for veterinary studies on a total of 320,000m2 on the Busan and Yangsan campuses,” Pusan National University stated.

The expected number of veterinary students will be around 40 and they are planning on hiring 20 professors.

PNU recently signed a business agreement with the Korea Pet Industry Association to promote academic cooperation, including the establishment of a veterinary university and educational research department.

PNU also emphasized that it is the only school out of the 10 national universities in the country without a veterinary department. They also pointed out that 15 four-year colleges in Busan do not have a veterinary department.

For this reason, PNU urged the establishment of a veterinary department.

“Dynamic Busan” has been the city’s slogan for the past 20 years, but it’s no longer going to be used.

According to a survey conducted between November 4^th and 10^th, more than 70% of the participants said that they were not happy with the slogan and thought the city should pick a new one. The survey was sent out to 1,000 Busan citizens ages 19 or above.  

Media outlet reports said that the city of Busan’s new slogan will be chosen by a panel of professionals, including experts in promotional marketing, branding and design by March of next year.  

According to Korean statistics, the number of multicultural marriages in Busan last year was only 612.

That accounted for 5% of the total number of marriages in Busan, significantly lower than the national average.

Multicultural marriages refer to when Koreans (including naturalized Koreans) marry non-Koreans, and naturalized people marry each other.

The number of multicultural marriages in Busan increased from 1,058 in 2017, 1,151 in 2018, and 1,216 in 2019, respectively.

However, in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of cases plunged to 694, and last year, it further decreased to around 600.

It is the second consecutive year of multicultural marital numbers being on the decline.

This is a result of the restrictions made on international exchanges and immigration due to COVID-19.