SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea officially launched a task force (TF) to review an agreement with Japan reached in 2015 to settle a long-standing bilateral feud over Japan’s imperial-era mobilization of Korean women as sex workers, the foreign ministry said Monday. The TF is tasked with fact-finding and assessing the processes leading up [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean film “The Battleship Island” held a prescreening for UNESCO officials and diplomats in Paris to increase the world’s awareness of the dark history of the Japanese island where hundreds of Koreans were forced to work as coal miners and sex slaves during World War II, its distributor [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A lawmaker has announced plans to propose a reform to South Korea’s current dating abuse law that when passed, will allow police to respond more quickly to victims. Under the proposal put forward on Sunday by Pyo Chang-won, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, if a victim reports [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A new online survey has revealed Seoul Bike is the most popular government-operated sharing service among residents of Seoul. The survey, conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government last month with a sample of 2,500 Seoul residents, showed the satisfaction rate among users was over 91 percent, the municipal government [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Shocking figures from a new report have warned of a wide discrepancy in prices for dental procedures in South Korea, as an increasing number of patients are being reported to have been hit with unnecessarily expensive bills, up to five times higher in some cases, for the exact same type [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — It has recently come to light that the number of illegally-driven vehicles – so called daepocha – in the city of Seoul alone has exceeded 2,000 over the past five years. According to a report on the status of daepocha in the city of Seoul over the past five [...]
SUWON, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Suwon, which suffered a power outage and vehicle contaminations last year due to the appearance of flocks of crows, has decided to draw up countermeasures, utilizing big data to track crow movements. The city revealed on July 28 that it will set up a customized platform [...]
NORTH KOREA, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on July 28 that Azalea 3, the smartphone launched by North Korea in the first half of this year, is known to have an outer appearance similar to that of the iPhone 6, but is devoid of internet service. The radio station also stated [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite an unofficial ban of Korean cultural content, the principal Chinese state television broadcaster CCTV has praised “The Battleship Island”, a Korean film that deals with the forced labor during the Japanese occupation, as an anti-Japanese blockbuster and devoted significant airtime to coverage of the film. A CCTV account of [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A widely used U.S. history textbook will carry more pages on the unique ancient culture and modern economic development of South Korea starting next year, Seoul’s education ministry said Friday. The revised content will be published in the Ways of the World, co-written by professors Robert Strayer and Eric [...]