SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education has backtracked on an English education ban in preschools following mounting criticism. The education ministry has withdrawn its decision to ban after-school English classes in nursery schools only three weeks after the announcement, with the proposed ban now up in the air. Though new standards for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will continue efforts to remove ActiveX from official websites this year. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said on Tuesday that 30 select government websites will go through an ‘Active X purge’ this year, as part of the initiative to do away with controversial plug-in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The head of the country’s top baseball league was named the new president of the national professional sports association on Tuesday. Chung Un-chan, commissioner of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), was appointed the second president of the Korea Professional Sports Association (KPSA). The KPSA was formed in November 2015, [...]
DANGJIN, South Korea, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The 500-year-old folk game “Gijisi tug-of-war,” a UNESCO intangible heritage in the South Korean city of Dangjin, will be featured at the country’s upcoming Winter Olympics and Paralympics, a city official said Tuesday. “Gijisi tug-of war will be displayed not only at the Olympic venues of PyeongChang, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a major South Korean shipbuilder, said Tuesday it has been holding negotiations with Romania over the sale of the European country’s largest shipyard. Romania’s state-owned company 2 Mai S.A. Mangalia shipyard informed Daewoo Shipbuilding on Jan. 5 of its intention to exercise its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday its latest energy-efficient dryer has gained popularity in South Korea in recent weeks. Four weeks after its launch, sales of the LG TROMM Dual Inverter Heatpump Dryer stood at more than three times that of the previous model, the company said. LG said more [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul-based non-profit organization on Tuesday awarded a Korean company and two figures from France and Russia for their work in promoting Korea’s image overseas. In the Korea Image Awards ceremony, which took place at a hotel in southern Seoul Tuesday, the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI) presented an [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Pyongyang will send a 140-strong orchestra to South Korea to perform in celebration of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics next month. The two Koreas agreed during the talks at the border village of Panmunjom on Monday that the North Korean orchestra known as Samjiyon Band will hold concerts both in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked sixth in the number of clinical trials last year, up two places from 2016, a new study has found. Data provided by the U.S. government agency National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that while South Korea ranked sixth, Seoul was named the city with the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is stepping up efforts to reduce phosphorus levels in the Han River in a bid to improve water quality. Government officials on Monday announced plans to spend nearly 235 billion won to set up total phosphorus treatment facilities at four sewage treatment centers in the [...]