SEJONG, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will further diversify its import sources for natural gas, one of the country’s key energy sources, and build more storage facilities as part of an effort to secure a stable supply and reduce its reliance from coal and nuclear power, the country’s energy ministry said Thursday. According [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales at Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. in the United States declined six percent on-year last month, industry data showed Wednesday. Hyundai, including its premium brand Genesis, and Kia sold a combined 112,185 vehicles in the U.S. in March, down from 118,694 units the same [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of paralyzed patients has increased by more than 25 percent over the past five years, with 1 in 3 in their 70s or older, data showed Wednesday. The data compiled by the National Health Insurance Service showed a total of 75,295 people visited hospitals to be treated [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will work to accommodate an additional 200,000 young students in all-day after-school day care centers this year, President Moon Jae-in promised Wednesday, a move partly aimed at supporting working mothers and tackling the country’s record low birthrate. “Launching an all-day care system is a key policy objective [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Veteran singer Cho Yong-pil, a key member of the South Korean artist troupe to Pyongyang, has suggested that music can serve as a tool for the two Koreas to communicate emotionally. The 160-member group returned home early Wednesday after staging two concerts in Pyongyang. “Just like the concert’s title, [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it delivered clothes along with other donations to veterans of the Korean War in Ethiopia in line with its charity projects in Africa. Under the project, the South Korean consumer electronics giant delivered warm jackets to 186 Ethiopian veterans in the capital city of [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As early as next year, South Korea’s Armed Forces may begin testing drones in artificial combat settings, a sign that a fourth industrial revolution-influenced form of warfare is creeping ever closer. At the three-day “dronebot” expo being held at the Sejong Convention Center, the Army laid out its plans [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the next five years, Seoul’s Office of Education will spend approximately 145 billion won to boost English instruction at city-funded public schools, a spokesperson announced yesterday. In a country that prizes education, the demand for learning English is strong, evidenced by the 5.4 trillion won spent on private [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors who either have trouble falling asleep for more than thirty minutes or who sleep more than eight hours a day are at greater risk of having their cognitive abilities deteriorate. More specifically, seniors who drift off to sleep after the thirty-minute mark are at 40 percent greater risk [...]
SEJONG, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has announced it will make changes to standing regulation so that drones may be flown at higher altitudes in high density building clusters without having to receive clearance before takeoff. To account for the risk of drones crashing into one another while airborne or flying into a [...]