SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 6 in 10 South Korean jobseekers are willing to work for even low-paying, temporary jobs, a poll showed Monday, pointing to the grim reality facing local job hunters. The leading online job search portal JobKorea said its survey of 1,368 jobseekers showed that 57.7 percent have intentions to [...]
OKCHEON, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Okcheon County in North Chungcheong Province has recently experienced a drop in the number of attacks from wild boars, after the local government began feeding the wild animals instead of hunting them, following the realization that many venture out of their natural habitat due to hunger. Previously, local government officials [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Following in the footsteps of SKT and LG Uplus, KT is freeing its Wi-Fi access points to the public, becoming the last of the three major South Korean mobile network providers to join the government’s effort to create a nationwide free Wi-Fi zone. KT’s latest move to join its [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The harsh working conditions many mailmen are subjected to in South Korea continue to cost lives, as the latest victim, a man who went by the name Yong, was found dead last Thursday after collapsing on the job. Yong, who was in his late 50s, delivered mail in the rain [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, 245 pet animals were abandoned on a daily basis in South Korea, according to statistics released by the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency yesterday. In total close to 90,000 animals were abandoned or went missing last year, up 9.3 percent from the previous year, while the figure [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – About 14,000 people are dying prematurely every year in South Korea as a result of air pollution, a medical professor said Monday, citing a report by the U.S.-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Cheong Hae-kwan, a professor at the Medical College of Seoul’s Sungkyunkwan University, said during [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Princess Astrid of Belgium has been granted honorary citizenship by the city of Seoul, the city government said Monday. Princess Astrid arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a weeklong visit as a special envoy of the current monarch and her brother, King Philippe, with a group of 258 delegates [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Korea Express has launched a meal delivery service for the first time in the logistics industry in South Korea, catering to the growing number of single households and working couples in the country. From 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. every day, the company’s new service will see ready-made meals [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon, a city in Gangwon Province, is set to reopen a water park built on a site previously occupied by a U.S. military base next month after the success it experienced last year, attracting more than 50,000 visitors. This summer, the Ggumjaram water garden, on which the city government [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s power supply hovered above its demand for the past seven days after a temporary shutdown of eight old coal-fired power plants, government data showed Sunday, shaking off concerns over a possible shortage. Starting June 1, the aged thermal power plants, including four in central Chungcheong Province, went offline for a month in line with the government’s efforts [...]