SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea employees are considering staging a protest over their excessive workload. Industry sources said that several Starbucks employees are communicating via Blind, an anonymous chat app for employed workers and staff, to stage a protest in trucks to demand a better working environment. Starbucks Korea does not have [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will send out mobile notifications, instead of mail, for delinquent tax notices. The city’s internal revenue department has been sending out some 200,000 notices to 25,000 delinquent taxpayers via mail every year. However, the mail often fails to reach the taxpayers because many of them [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The final stages of the return of Camp Market in the western port city of Incheon, which served as a former United States Forces Korea (USFK) base after the liberation of the Korean peninsula in 1945, have been completed with the relocation of the bakery plant on the site. The bakery plant [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the number of lawsuits being filed in South Korea continues to grow. The National Court Administration reported that the number of registered lawsuits last year amounted to 6,679,233, up by 0.68 percent (44,889 cases) since the previous year. Among them, 4,829,616 cases dealt with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An analysis showed that school violence is becoming less physical. One factor behind this is the difficulty in entering into face-to-face contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the data that Rep. Lee Tan-hee of the Democratic Party received from the National Police Agency, the number of ‘assault [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Law enforcement agencies in South Korea have introduced special ID codes for animal abuse to quickly address the increasing number of animal abuse cases. The National Police Agency said Monday that it had issued a special 112 police emergency line identification code for animal abuse in January this year. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Asan Medical Center announced that Cho Geon-woo, a 23.5-centimeter-long baby who was four months premature and weighed only 288 grams at the time of birth, had safely left the hospital last week after 153 days of intensive medical treatment. Cho’s parents from Haman, South Gyeongsang Province, had their [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Braille and voice formats have been introduced to help the blind submit various police forms including accusation files and requests to look up criminal records and other information. Seoul’s Mapo Police Station said Monday that it will begin offering braille and voice (QR code) formats to help visually impaired [...]
HWASEONG, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Hwaseong, south of Seoul, announced that it will start offering a one-stop service for unregistered foreign workers to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Any unregistered foreign worker can visit a nearby COVID-19 testing center to receive a vaccination without having to make a prior reservation. Foreigners over 30 [...]
HONGSEONG, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A female senior safely returned home after her disappearance, thanks to her pet dog. The police found and rescued Kim, a 93-year-old woman, who had collapsed in a field two kilometers away from her home in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province, on Aug. 26, just two days after her disappearance [...]