SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs Cho Kuk said in an official statement and video uploaded on the Facebook page of the Blue House that the government will conduct a detailed investigation into abortions next year. Cho’s statement was the government’s response to a petition that had [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – February 2, the kick-off date of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, is fast approaching, leaving the organizing committee with a shrinking window to come up with solutions to problems that are for the most part out of their control. The first blow was delivered in September by the NHL, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The incidence of road rage continues to increase in South Korea, despite government measures to combat the violence and stricter penalties. Although new legislation was enacted last year criminalizing violent driving and road rage with a one-year jail term or a fine of up to 5 million won, the number [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has shut down Suncheon Bay and the surrounding area for an indefinite period after the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced yesterday that bird droppings containing a highly pathogenic form of avian influenza had been discovered. Roads leading to and around the popular tourist location [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With the southeastern city of Pohang still recovering from a 5.4-magnitude temblor last week that caused significant damage, the grim but necessary prospect of a major earthquake hitting Seoul has been a hot topic of discussion in South Korea in recent days. ‘What if a major earthquake hits Seoul?’ is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of call centers are moving to ensure their workers’ right to hang up on unruly customers, as part of efforts to tackle emotional abuse from rude callers. The right to hang up is a self-explanatory policy increasingly adopted in the service sector in South Korea that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – While the city of Pohang and its surrounding regions continue to deal with aftershocks from the 5.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the day before, the government delivered its own stunning blow by postponing the state-administered college entrance exam to November 23. Originally scheduled to take place on November 16, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Melania Trump is back in Washington D.C. after accompanying her husband Donald Trump on his trip to Asia, but her charm and soft power that appealed to the South Korean public linger on. The First Lady returned to the U.S. after visiting Japan, South Korea and China with U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite news continuing to filter out about South Korea and China’s mending relationship post-THAAD disagreement, the political and business sectors are taking the lessons learned from an overreliance on China to heart by ramping up efforts to establish a foothold in ASEAN member countries, or what some in South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – “What do you want to be when you grow up?” In the past, typical answers ranged from a football player who could bend it like Beckham to a movie star dodging bullets like Keanu Reeves. Ask kids in their teens or younger the question today, and they just might [...]