SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has unveiled 20 new places to visit that the city believes could be the next hot spots, including a part of Deoksugung Doldam-gil that has been closed to the public for over six decades. According to the new map released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – With a plummeting birth rate and soaring life expectancy, care workers are emerging as one of the crucial professions in an aging South Korea where seniors now account for over 14 percent of the country’s population, but pressing issues such as difficult working conditions and poor treatment still remain [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday one of its plants in China resumed operations Friday following a three-day suspension after a German company refused to supply auto parts due to payment problems, the South Korean carmaker said. On Tuesday, Hyundai’s plant in Cangzhou, Hebei District, was brought to a halt [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday the combined preorders for its Galaxy Note 8 in South Korea reached nearly 400,000 units on the first day, far outpacing its predecessor. The South Korean tech giant said around 395,000 consumers applied to purchase the phablet Thursday. The figure eclipses numbers for the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s women’s national ice hockey team will play friendly games with top college teams in the United States starting next week, the sport’s national governing body said Friday. The Korea Ice Hockey Association said the women’s team will depart for the U.S. on Sunday for a three-week training [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court ordered the government Friday to compensate a victim of forced labor at a salt farm for its failure to protect him when he escaped and requested police help. The Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of the intellectually disabled man who was forced to toil [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has revealed nearly 8 in 10 repairmen have experienced both physical and verbal violence from customers during house visits. The shocking findings come from a survey conducted by a collective action for technical service workers with a sample of 796 repairmen, in which 614 respondents answered they [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines held a special science and engineering class for female students at its second aircraft hangar at Incheon Airport on Thursday as part of K-girls Day, an event devised to raise awareness and interest in engineering among women. According to the airline on Friday, the education program was held [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean police forces have been advised by a reform committee to exercise less force and authority to control peaceful protests and do more to protect protestors. At a press conference held on Thursday with the commissioner general of the National Police Agency, the police reform committee urged South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is passing an ordinance that bans food trucks owned by franchise companies from entering publicly run events in the city, in a move to help small and medium independent businesses. As the city’s committee came to an agreement on Wednesday, the ordinance will take effect sometime [...]