SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Low-income regions highly populated with seniors, disabled individuals and immigrants are more vulnerable to a pandemic like COVID-19, a report said Sunday. A research team from the Korea Institute of Public Administration studied the exposure (how easily a disease may spread), susceptibility (how much a disease can incur physical, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is thinking seriously about sharing its liquefied natural gas (LNG) inventories with Europe amid looming supply disruptions sparked by the Ukraine crisis, officials said Sunday. “The government is seriously contemplating supporting Europe should the situation aggravate in Ukraine and create difficulties in the supply of natural gas,” [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of restaurant and other small business owners demonstrated in central Seoul on Tuesday, demanding the government lift business hour curfews and sufficiently compensate them for losses from the prolonged anti-virus restraints. Some 200 members of the so-called emergency association of small business hit by COVID-19 gathered near Gwanghwamun [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since South Korea became the first Asian country to introduce the Refugee Act in 2012, there has been an increasing number of refugees settling in the country. Now, public opinion remains split on whether to lower the social hurdles for accepting refugees or implement stricter requirements for recognizing asylum seekers as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — For Lee Bok-won, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in western Seoul, stocking up on fresh homemade kimchi during winter has been quite a chore for the past several years. The process, traditionally done by family groups over multiple days, usually involves a painstaking process of soaking a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent suicide deaths of a male professional volleyball player bullied online for years for his feminine appearance and a YouTuber accused of misandry have rekindled calls for tougher punishment for cyberbullying and malicious online comments. Kim In-hyeok, the 27-year-old volleyball player, was found dead in an apparent suicide [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hate crimes are on the rise in South Korea following the coronavirus outbreak, a study showed Monday. A paper recently published in the Korean Journal of Public Safety and Criminal Justice analyzed 31 hate crimes that occurred between 2006 and December 2019 and 39 hate crimes that occurred between [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The director of the latest coming-of-age thriller “All of Us Are Dead” said Monday his first Netflix series is not simply a zombie apocalypse but also a lifelike portrayal of human society with people from all walks of life. Based on a popular webtoon, “All of Us Are Dead” [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean athletes at the Beijing Winter Games will get to enjoy a taste of home starting Friday, thanks to a meal service center set up in a hotel near their Olympic village. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) announced Thursday that it will be providing boxed meals [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than three in 10 children out of school have been suffering depression, being at risk of possibly taking one’s own life, a survey showed Wednesday. The National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) found through a survey that 35 percent and 29 percent of out-of-school children were experiencing depression and [...]