SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s and 30s are open to remarriage, a poll showed Wednesday, amid the fast-spreading trend of people remaining single or getting married late. According to the survey by local matchmaking firm Duo, 96 percent of men and women answered positively [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A scandal surrounding the alleged special treatment of children of conglomerate CEOs and celebrities in a case of school violence has sparked a public outcry, with some going one step further and treating the controversy as a sign of social inequality in the country. According to the Seoul Metropolitan [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – New regulations targeting insurance packages sold on shopping channels have seen fewer customers misled by false advertising. The Korea Life Insurance Association said on Tuesday that the measures implemented to counter misleading advertising introduced last year have helped curb what are widely known in South Korea as ‘incomplete sales’, a [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the South Korean government’s national health insurance reform, which will cover palliative care for an extended number of terminally ill patients from August, many fear the lack of hospice care infrastructure in the country will not live up to the expectations of ‘dying well’. Hospice care, which refers [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – What has been the only way to become a judicial officer in South Korea for over 50 years has finally come to an end, with the last exam scheduled to take place over the next four days, starting today. According to the Ministry of Justice, the second leg of the [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea voiced strong protests Wednesday against Japan’s latest claims to its easternmost islets of Dokdo in an education manual. The foreign ministry also said that it called in a Japanese Embassy official to lodge its complaints with what it sees as “repeated” and “unjustified” territorial claims.”We strongly protest [...]
TOKYO, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As the South Korean government continues its efforts to lower reliance on nuclear energy and focus on renewable energy, the Japanese media is paying attention to its neighbor’s denuclearization policy in memory of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. The headline that covered the front page of Tokyo [...]
BUSAN, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The University of North Dakota (UND) Aerospace, an American university famous for aviation education, is set to launch its very first Asian campus in Busan, South Korea. Busan Mayor Seo Byeong-su made an announcement on Tuesday acknowledging a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this month at UND Aerospace in Grand [...]
SEJONG, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of one-person families continued to rise in South Korea last year amid the fast-spreading trend of people remaining single, government data showed Wednesday. Households consisting of a single member totaled 5.28 million in 2016, up 3.3 percent, or 169,000, from the previous year, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. Senate has scheduled a hearing that is expected to focus on the death of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year, its website showed Wednesday. Warmbier, 22, died Monday, days after returning home in a coma following [...]