SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday one of its passenger jets hit its tail on the runway while landing at a Japanese airport, although no there were no injuries and no damage to the plane. On Monday morning at Kansai International Airport, the tail section of the South Korean flag carrier’s B737-900 jet made contact with the runway just as it touched [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday denied allegations that it lobbied major officials from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help South Korea host the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang. “The company reviewed everything and legally sponsored the committee, just the same as other general sponsorship agreements it has signed,” the South Korean [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the World Economic Forum (WEF) will study ways to set up a sister center to the WEF’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and work together on related research activities, Seoul’s chief economic policymaker said Tuesday. “We proposed working together for the establishment of a new [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An admired police officer in Daejeon who had received praise from the chief of police and media coverage for catching wanted criminals has been caught stealing motor oil. The disgraced sergeant, whose name is being withheld, now faces prosecution after being caught stealing 320 liters of fuel from five concrete [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is facing growing calls to introduce stricter GMO labeling laws. Over 200,000 people have now backed a petition on the official Blue House website calling for stricter GMO labeling and a ban on the use of GMOs in schools. With 202,010 people on board as of Monday afternoon, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of hotels in South Korea are catering towards children, as families make for lucrative guests. According to Lotte Hotel, the 20 Hello Kitty-themed rooms at Lotte Hotel Jeju are a hit. “Over 80 percent of the Hello Kitty rooms are booked throughout the year, while all rooms [...]
YESAN, South Korea, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A pair of storks that were released into the wild have hatched five chicks near a research center tasked with restoring the endangered bird in the country’s central region, marking the third consecutive year the bird has bred outside captivity in South Korea, the Yesan municipal government said Monday. A female stork named Gukhwang [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea prevented more than 17,000 foreign nationals, who committed crimes or were highly likely to do so, from entering the country from April 2017 to this March by implementing a system to screen passenger information prior to their boarding South Korea-bound planes, the justice ministry said Monday. The system, which went into effect April 1, 2017, calls for the ministry to receive passenger information from an airline at the [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government on Friday urged General Motors’ Korean unit to resume negotiations with its labor union to normalize its business as an intensifying labor dispute is complicating the automaker’s turnaround plan. A tug-of-war between GM Korea and its workers has turned more combative after some union leaders took over the office of GM Korea President Kaher Kazem at the [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Former President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison and 18 billion won in fine on Friday in a massive corruption scandal that toppled her from power early last year. In a live televised trial, the Seoul Central District Court meted out the guilty verdict for the 66-year-old former leader, about a year after her arrest in late March of 2017. [...]