SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Against Japan’s territorial claim to Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets in the East Sea, a video news clip was released on Youtube disclosing the tragic extinction of sea lions around the island by Japanese fishermen. The second episode of Dokdo News titled “Truth of Disappeared Gangchi (Sea Lion)” counters [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A whistleblower who helped the Korean tax office collect billions of won from tobacco company KT&G was indicted for blackmailing the company prior to alerting authorities about the company’s tax evasion. The whistleblower, surnamed Lee, entered KT&G in 1994 and was a diligent employee of the firm, the largest tobacco company [...]
“The past two years laid the groundwork for 30 years of development through a solid and sound running of state affairs. Not all the fruits are picked during the current administration — the next administration and the people will taste the fruits. Also, under the current administration, South Korea’s once-frosty ties with the United States, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s mobile carrier LG Uplus said Monday it will start selling its new smart navigation platform overseas as part of its broader efforts to set foot in global market with Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology. The Car Link, developed in collaboration with a local platform operator, is based on a “mirroring” service, which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom‘s ‘T-Kids Phone’ wearable for children is becoming a success among customers with kids. T-Kids Phone is a coin-sized gadget that can be worn as a wristwatch or necklace. The gadget features an automatic notification-pusher, which sends messages of the whereabouts of children wearing the gadget to their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More Koreans are starting to consider marriage as a dispensable life event. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea in 2014, 38.9 percent of Korean respondents over 13 said that they regarded marriage as dispensable while 2.0 percent of the respondents said that they considered marriage as completely unnecessary. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have isolated a link between stress hormones and infertility in female Drosophila (fruit flies). A research team led by Prof. Kim Young-joon of the Biological Science Department at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) discovered that neuronal mechanisms in female Drosophila melanogaster control sperm retention and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Korean government is unfolding rather interesting measures to up its birth rate. Up until the 1980s, efforts were made to limit population growth by slowing down the birth rate. However, after a famine hit in the middle of the 1990s, causing millions of deaths, the government turned [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean governmental bodies are making good use of big data analysis to help design new policies. The Gwangju Metropolitan Government and SK Telecom recently conducted a big data analysis regarding transportation and population information in Gwangju, to find out which areas were the most populated with senior citizens over 65 who had [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean rapper Psy‘s “Gentleman” video has been viewed more than 800 million times on YouTube, his management agency said Sunday. YG Entertainment posted the news on the singer’s Facebook Page and Twitter earlier in the day. The 2013 sequel to the viral hit “Gangnam Style,” which catapulted him [...]