SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) is set to introduce new reforms to the current aviation law concerning bird strikes, which will determine whether or not facilities that could attract birds can be built near airports, the government branch announced yesterday. The MOLIT’s new move comes on [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean conglomerate SK Group held its 2017 SK Global Forum in New Jersey, America last Saturday in search of global human resources, as part of its preparation for a foray into the global market, the company said yesterday. Members of SK Group’s senior management team including SK Energy [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense ministry began preparations for a full-blown environmental impact assessment on the ongoing deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system Tuesday, a ministry official said, a move that will inevitably delay its operation. The move came one day after President Moon Jae-in personally ordered a thorough study [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The ratio of the middle class in South Korea fell slightly last year amid growing income disparity, the finance ministry said Tuesday. The ratio of the middle class stood at 65.7 percent in 2016, down from 67.4 percent a year earlier, according to the ministry. South Korea defines the middle [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As the summer is approaching rapidly, the risk of voyeurism is on the rise, particularly at beaches and swimming pools. Warnings of secret cameras were issued earlier this month with the opening of Haeundae Beach in Busan, which became the first of 272 beaches in South Korea to open [...]
GUMI, NORTH GYEONGSANG, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean energy company Gumi Green Energy’s plan to build a new thermal power station in Gumi by 2020 is facing criticism from environmental groups, local government officials and residents at a time when air pollution is one of the biggest challenges facing the country. The energy [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s newly-elected president promised Friday that the government would take a more proactive role in tackling dementia, a mental illness that affects nearly one in ten elderly people in the country. Speaking to family members and dementia patients during a visit to the Seoul Sanitarium and Hospital, Moon [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Airbnb Inc. said Monday about 510,000 foreigners visited South Korea last year using its room-sharing platform in the latest sign of its growing popularity. The figure represents a 130-percent hike from 220,000 recorded in 2015, the website operator said. Separately, about 500,000 South Koreans also used Airbnb in traveling [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korae Bizwire) – A Seoul court ruled on Monday that it is illegal for private foreign language institutes to not pay severance to native-speaking instructors at the end of their contracts. The Seoul Central District Court ordered a private foreign language institute in Seoul to pay a total of about 180 million [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing support for so-called ‘comfort women’ statues in the U.S., Japanese government officials are allegedly continuing their efforts to thwart the spread of the artwork commemorating the victims of the Second World War. The small city of Brookhaven, a community of around 50,000 residents in the state of [...]