SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Young-gle, an office worker living in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, had lingering concerns about getting a COVID-19 vaccine when a call arrived from a local clinic saying she was next up in line for a leftover shot. “Reports and rumors about blood clots related to younger people [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 2 out of 3 Seoulites in their 20s and 30s believe South Korea is not an ideal country for them to live in, a survey showed Thursday. The Seoul Institute, a city-run think tank, said it polled 1,000 Seoul residents between the ages of 20 and 39 from [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Korean students were found to have fallen behind in Korean, math and English, research showed Wednesday, confirming pandemic learning loss amid yearlong remote learning. The Ministry of Education unveiled the results of the educational achievement research, conducted together with the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation in [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An amendment of the Nationality Act, for which the Ministry of Justice recently issued a legislation notice, is causing a controversy over preferential treatment for Korean-Chinese people. The children of permanent residents can be acknowledged as Koreans only if they undergo the naturalization process after becoming adults. This is [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea established a presidential committee Saturday to serve as the control tower of the nation’s carbon neutrality drive. President Moon Jae-in said the government-private panel would be a “pivot” in uniting national efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. He admitted that it would not be easy for [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to impose a 20 percent income tax on capital gains from cryptocurrency transactions starting next year as planned, the government announced Friday, despite growing investor calls for delaying the taxation plan. The government announced the plan after discussing the matter during a vice-ministerial interagency meeting chaired [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday launched an innovative pilot program to help non-priority people receive AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines made available from canceled appointments, but the so-called leftover vaccines can hardly be found in reality, many citizens said. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) began the test operation of [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is on track to make it easier for commercial tenants who shut down their business due to the COVID-19 pandemic to cancel their rent contracts. The Ministry of Justice issued an advance legislation notice concerning a revision of the Commercial Building Tenant Protection Act. The revision stipulates [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Sayuri, a Japanese TV personality who lives in Seoul, starts her day before 4 a.m. when her five month-old baby wakes up. She has to skip her own breakfast as she is occupied feeding and comforting her child. An unmarried woman who chose to be a single mother, Sayuri [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will listen to public opinions on whether or not to abolish the Family Rites Act concerning the order of wedding ceremonies and funeral procedures, etc., which has been criticized for being out of date. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights [...]