SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Fees owed for electronic litigation can now be paid using mobile phones, the Supreme Court of Korea announced last week. Mobile payments will now be an available option for those who use the electronic litigation system on the website of the Supreme Court of Korea to deal with legal problems. [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The chief of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Tuesday she will discuss with Malaysia the murder case of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half brother. Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi made the remark during a press briefing at the Supreme Court in southern Seoul during her visit to attend [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is closely communicating with the United States on North Korea and other major issues ahead of the upcoming summit talks to be held between the U.S. and China this week, the foreign ministry here said Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump is to meet with Chinese President Xi [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Online threads promoting fake identities and suicide are on the rise with nearly 1,500 cases reported so far this year, the government has found. More than 1,150 instances of fake identities and 276 cases of online promotion for suicide were reported during the first quarter of this year, the [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s famous annual shopping festival for foreign visitors has returned once again this year with more offers and for an extended duration, starting next month. The Seoul Summer Sale, which will run from April 23 through to the end of July, will offer tourists from all around the world [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Cash-strapped Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a major shipyard here, said Tuesday that it has clinched a US$250 million deal to build three very large crude carriers (VLCCs). Under the deal with Maran Tankers Management, a unit of Greece’s largest shipper, Angelicoussis Shipping Group, Daewoo Shipbuilding will deliver [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government and Facebook Inc. joined hands on Tuesday to assist promising local startups in the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industries to gain access to the global market. Under an agreement signed between Facebook and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, 10 [...]
JEJU, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jeju provincial government said Friday it sent trade delegations to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia last week to sign deals for exports of local products worth several million U.S. dollars. Scores of companies based in the southern resort island of Jeju joined the delegations that visited the Asian [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Friday urged South Korean political parties, organizations and people from all walks of life to rally against the U.S. and war via its nominal political party’s letter of plea sent to them in an apparent bid to defend its stance on tensions on the Korean Peninsula. [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A new update to SK Telecom’s artificial intelligence voice assistant NUGU will see users shop online through voice commands without the hassle of turning on their mobile or laptop. SK Telecom has teamed up with its e-commerce platform 11st, one of the largest online shopping malls in South Korea, to [...]