SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Southeast Asian tourists might soon be able to visit South Korea without the hassle of obtaining a visa, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) said at a finance ministers’ meeting yesterday. The ministry’s move is said to be part of a series of measures to revamp tourism in [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – With the political tension between South Korea and China higher than ever over the deployment of a THAAD missile system from the U.S., the strong interest in a football match between the two countries scheduled tonight is seeing tickets resold for up to nearly 1.5 million won. Near Changsha Helong [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Graphic warning labels printed on tobacco packages will now be seen on packages of cigarettes sold at duty free shops. The Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF) announced Wednesday that cigarette products exported from foreign countries for sale at duty free stores will also be subject to the [...]
SEJONG, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sewol ferry was raised from the sea Thursday after an overnight salvage operation, some three years after its sinking that resulted in the deaths of 300 people and left nine missing. “The side of the hull is currently some 6 meters above the sea as of 2:00 p.m.,” [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Cash-strapped North Korea is inviting foreign investment in a cruise program linking its eastern mountain resort area to the Russian Far East and Southeast Asia, a North Korean website showed Thursday. Its website promoting Mt. Kumgang recently posted an investment guideline for a ferry business based in the port [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The liberal Democratic Party on Thursday launched an investigation into a possible leak of information on the outcome of a poll that will make up a part of its in-house election to name its presidential candidate. The move came one day after the party held a one-day polling of [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean TV shopping network Lotte Home Shopping recently experienced firsthand the surge in the popularity of electric cars when it aired a special program last Friday featuring electric cars for lease. During the hour-long broadcast, the network saw more than five thousand customers call in to [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A new approach by the Kangwon Land Addiction Care Center (KLACC) to the treatment of gambling addiction is attracting international attention, as foreign government officials flock to discover a unique incentive system that helps people overcome gambling addiction. The center’s newly introduced plan designed to help relieve gambling [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Wednesday that it plans to move forward with the process of raising the Sewol ferry from the bottom of the sea if mild weather conditions continue. “The hull was carefully test lifted up one meter from the sea bottom,” the Ministry of Oceans and [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A local education office said Wednesday it has decided to dismiss three teachers who gave undue academic favors to the daughter of former President Park Geun-hye’s close friend at the center of an influence-peddling scandal. The teachers at Chungdam High School in southern Seoul are accused of unfairly giving [...]