SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The mother and two sisters of Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong have recently visited him at a detention center, legal sources said Wednesday. The Samsung heir was sentenced to five years in prison on Aug. 25 for giving 43 billion won (US$38 million) in kickbacks to ousted President [...]
SUWON, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the government’s decision to make October 2 a temporary national holiday, stretching this year’s Chuseok holiday out over 10 days, workers at small businesses and those on a rotational shift won’t be able to enjoy the so-called Golden Holiday. While workers in the public sector or big corporations welcomed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Gender inequality still remains far too prevalent in the South Korean military, as data from a human rights group shows there hasn’t been even a single female division commander over the last six decades. According to data put forward by the Center for Military Human Rights, a group advocating the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Putting chickens on a forced diet as a way of getting pesticides out of their system has been proven ineffective, and actually raises the level of pesticides in their body, agriculture authorities have learned. A number of South Korean poultry farms embroiled in the latest egg contamination scandal are continuing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As complaints continue to be reported over foul smells, the Pyeongtaek city government has launched a task force to combat the issue of bad odor that is plaguing the city. The number of cases jumped from 203 in 2015 to 247 in 2016. This year, the number already stands at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cosmetics companies are ramping up their efforts to crack down on the illegal resale of their products sold at duty free shops in a bid to stop further damage to their brand image. AmorePacific, one of the major cosmetics companies in the country, announced on Monday it has [...]
INCHEON, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Wyverns’ third baseman Choi Jeong on Tuesday became the fifth player in South Korean baseball to hit 40 home runs in back-to-back seasons. Choi launched his 40th homer of the 2017 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season off Song Seung-jun of the Lotte Giants in the bottom of the [...]
MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday he will not reject any form of talks with North Korea if necessary to resolve the nuclear standoff, but this is not the right time. He made the remarks in a written interview with TASS Russian News Agency ahead of his visit [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — With new smartphone lineups set to be introduced later this year, many manufacturers are prioritizing improved cameras to attract consumers in an increasingly competitive industry. As the obsession with the number of pixels dies down, with more consumers becoming interested in other aspects of smartphone cameras, most of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Tuesday dismissed local residents’ request to temporarily invalidate the government’s offering of land to host a U.S. missile defense system. In April, 396 people filed an administrative suit against the provision of a former golf course in Seongju County, North Gyeongsang Province, to U.S. Forces [...]