SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court’s order for Japan to disclose its state assets in South Korea to pay compensation to Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was aborted due to Tokyo’s refusal to comply, judicial sources said Friday. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday dismissed the case pertaining to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 45 percent of household heads over 65 years of age engaged in wage worker earn less than 1 million won (US$717) each month, data showed Wednesday. Statistics Korea reported that 44.6 percent of wage workers over 65 years of age make less than 1 million won in labor [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A proposed bill that bans the recording of phone calls and conversations without consent has prompted a debate on the boundary of privacy in a country where recorded clips of conversations often make headlines in whistleblowing cases and political spats. A group of ruling People Power Party lawmakers, led [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean flight attendants formerly employed by China Eastern Airlines Corp. who were laid off just prior to their expected promotion to regular employee status have won in a first-instance court trial. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the 70 flight attendants who sued [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the government’s introduction of digital sexual crime eradication measures in 2020, the number of such crimes grew sharply due to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Korean regulator said Thursday. According to data from the Korea Communications Standards Commission, the number of digital sexual crime report [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Gender inequality is still widespread in South Korean when it comes to employment and wages, the gender ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family reported that the employment rate among women stood at 51.2 percent last year, which was 18.8 percentage points lower than the male [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 percent of people who have reported cases of harassment at the workplace have been subject to retribution of various types, a pro-labor civic group said Monday. Gabjil 119 analyzed 1,442 tip-offs on workplace bullying cases between January and August this year in which they identified the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to become the country with the largest share of people aged 65 years or older in the world in 2044 due to rapid aging, data showed Monday. The proportion of senior citizens in South Korea is forecast to account for 36.7 percent of the total [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is trying to keep up the growth momentum of its TV business with its Lifestyle TVs, a senior executive has said, a lineup designed to transform traditional TV roles in line with rapidly changing lifestyle patterns. “The Lifestyle TVs form a new category that has received [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A presidential committee on ‘digital platform government’ came officially into being Friday with an initiative to create a data-based digital platform where the government could join hands with the public and firms to solve social problems. President Yoon Suk-yeol attended the ceremony held at the presidential office Friday morning [...]