South Korea included S$2.08 million in its supplementary budget to support ground exploration efforts. Read more at ...

The Seoul city government will double down on its surveillance of sinkholes at construction sites after a series of sinkholes ...

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN): The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on April 27 that it will introduce a ground subsidence monitoring network to prevent further sinkhole accidents.

With reports of sinkholes having increased across Seoul as the city government refuses to release detailed safety maps, ...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will deploy a new underground monitoring system capable of detecting ground subsidence up ...

As concerns persist over recent sinkholes in Seoul, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced that he plans to prevent such accidents by repairing the city's old sewage pipes.Oh made ...

This indicates that more than half of the causes of sinkhole incidents are related to aging water and sewage pipes. The situation is similar in Seoul, which has extensive underground developments.

Recently, as large sinkholes have increased in areas such as Gangdong District in Seoul, preventing such sinkhole occurrences with the current equipment is impossible. According to the 2025 ...

Anchor: Sinkholes are the subject of growing concern throughout the country, especially since the tragic death of a motorcyclist who fell into a massive sinkhole in Seoul’s ...

The incident comes just weeks after one person was killed when a massive sinkhole opened up in Seoul. The sinkhole accident took place at a site where extension work for a different metro line was ...