SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Sunday it will roll out a nationwide awareness drive to encourage people, especially younger adults, to monitor key health indicators in order to prevent cardiovascular disease, one of the country’s leading causes of death. The campaign, called “Know Your Numbers, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As smishing scams evolve with increasing sophistication, South Korea’s internet watchdog is stepping up its defenses with a new filtering system designed to block malicious text messages at the source. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) said Sunday that it has launched an “SMS X-ray” system that intercepts [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 1(Korea Bizwire) — Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled an artificial intelligence technique that can reconstruct clear video images obscured by fog, smoke, frosted glass, or even human tissue. The joint research team, led by Professor Jang Moo-seok of KAIST’s Department of Bio and Brain Engineering and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly three years after the deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district, the toll on firefighters who rushed to the scene continues to reverberate. A growing number of first responders have died by suicide, prompting urgent calls for stronger measures to address post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among emergency personnel. [...]
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit 2025 is taking place in China’s port city of Tianjin. Since Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping has been holding bilateral meetings with visiting foreign leaders. CGTN published an article covering Xi’s talks, in which he highlighted the significance of friendship, cooperation and multilateralism in international relations and global governance. BEIJING, [...]
SEOUL· SEJONG, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — AliExpress, the Chinese e-commerce platform, has been hit with a multimillion-dollar penalty in South Korea for misleading customers with inflated discount claims on thousands of products. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said Sunday it imposed corrective orders and fines totaling 20.93 billion won ($15.5 million) after finding that [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — For residents of Gangneung, disaster is a familiar rhythm of life. Over the past quarter century, the coastal city on South Korea’s east coast has endured some of the nation’s worst natural calamities: typhoons, catastrophic wildfires, record-breaking snowfalls. Now, it faces what officials call the worst drought in [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Under searing 35-degree heat, fire crews from across the country converged on Gangneung on Sunday, hauling thousands of tons of water in an urgent effort to relieve one of the worst droughts to hit the region in decades. At the Hongje Water Purification Plant, which supplies drinking [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have detected a surge of Siberian river water, organic material and sediment flowing into the East Siberian Sea, a shift they say could disrupt sea-ice formation and alter the timing and navigability of the Northern Sea Route. The Korea Polar Research Institute said Friday that a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw a decline in overall food poisoning cases last year, but salmonella-related infections bucked the trend, highlighting lingering vulnerabilities in hygiene management, government data show. According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), there were 265 outbreaks of foodborne illness in 2024, sickening 7,624 people [...]