SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged combined anti-submarine drills, involving a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, in waters south of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, Seoul’s Navy said, amid joint efforts to reinforce readiness against North Korean military threats. The exercise took place in waters south of the southern island [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of heatstroke patients in South Korea has surged in the past two days, following a heat wave that hit the country after the end of the rainy season. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) on Saturday, 46 people were diagnosed with heatstroke across [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have concluded that no hazardous substances were found in thousands of suspicious international parcels that had sparked fears of terrorism, officials said Friday. Police had been looking into whether terrorism was involved after thousands of international parcels received nationwide were reported to authorities for suspicions of containing suspicious [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged joint regular air drills involving advanced fighter jets this week to improve combined operational capabilities, Seoul’s Air Force said Friday. The five-day Buddy Squadron exercise began Monday at the 17th Fighter Wing in Cheongju, 112 kilometers south of Seoul, involving some 10 [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea issued a strong protest on Friday against Japan’s renewed territorial claim to its easternmost islets of Dokdo in an annual defense white paper, calling for its immediate retraction. Earlier in the day, Tokyo adopted the security document during a Cabinet session, renewing the claim to the pair [...]
HONG KONG, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — CBL International Limited (Nasdaq: BANL) are thrilled to share with you a few milestones we have reached since the beginning of this year, which not only demonstrated CBL’s ability to ramp up its capacity but also our commitments to the sustainable development. In the second quarter of 2023, [...]
San Francisco , July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – LambdaTest, a leading cloud-based unified testing platform announced the launch of Real Device integration with HyperExecute, a continuous testing cloud solution that enables developers and test engineers to orchestrate and execute tests up to 70% faster. With the exponential growth of mobile devices and the increasing diversity of smartphones [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the recent suicide of an elementary school teacher in Seoul, which has been largely attributed to excessive complaints from students’ parents, an internet checklist has been circulating to identify so-called ‘monster parents.’ This checklist is being shared on online communities and social media, containing 11 questions aimed at [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is enhancing the size of medical subsidies provided to women pregnant with multiple children. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Thursday that medical vouchers for such women, which were previously limited to 1.4 million won (US$1,090), regardless of the number of babies they were carrying (twins [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese tech giant Xiaomi Corp. on Thursday released its newest smartwatch and wireless earphones in South Korea, aiming to compete with Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Unpacked event that occurred the day before. The Redmi Watch 3 and Redmi Buds 4 Active are priced at 104,800 won (US$81.94) and 19,800 [...]