BUSAN, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the members of the Remon Terrace, a popular online forum in South Korea, posted details of a shocking encounter with the police while feeding a street cat on December 4. Also known by her online ID, catmom, the member was feeding a stray cat in front of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers have joined forces to confront Apple’s continuous “gapjil” — a uniquely Korean term referring to the abuse of power by someone against a person in a weaker position — that has put an increasing financial burden on their operations. In a press release from the Korea Mobile [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Motherly love turns out to be one of the keys to the successful development of octopus aquaculture. Releasing female octopuses full of eggs into the wide mud flats off the South Korean coast has contributed to huge improvement in octopus aquaculture, according to a report from the Institute [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 6 out of 10 South Korean children under the age of 6 use smartphones, and the age at which children start using smartphones is steadily decreasing. The Barun ICT Research Center at Yonsei University conducted a study on 602 participants with children between [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is striving to come up with alternative profit-sharing schemes between large corporations and small-and-medium-sized companies with the intention of promoting a more horizontal relationship between them. The government is also looking to implement a coexistence model where both large corporations and SMCs can achieve a win-win [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) —Various civic groups that claim the problem of land speculation in Korea cannot be overcome without increasing property holding tax have come together to launch a civic action coalition calling for stronger measures. Civic groups such as Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice and Mibyun’s Committee on People’s Livelihood & Economy [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans who were older, lower income earners, and with low levels of education were found to have less capacity to understand and utilize consumer information or claim their rights as consumers, according to a survey titled “2018 Consumer Empowerment Index of Korea” conducted by the Korea Consumer Agency [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent legislative change will make it easier for an immigrant spouse to acquire a South Korean visa if his or her Korean partner is willing to learn the spouse’s mother tongue. The Ministry of Justice announced Monday that the Korean language qualification required for a marriage visa will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – New data reveals that there are as many as 244 people who are minors “in charge of“ real estate leasing services in South Korea, and 23 of them were found to be high-income earners making more than 100 million won per year. Kim Doo-kwan, a member of the finance [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Daehan Oil Pipeline’s storage tank in Goyang erupted in a massive blaze last Sunday, burning more than 2 million liters of oil before being put out by firefighters after a rigorous 17-hour effort. The massive fire was reportedly caused by a sky lantern that was released by a Sri [...]