SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, plans to expand its network of ‘base offices’ in metropolitan areas aimed at enabling all of its employees to commute within 10 or 20 minutes. According to SK Telecom, CEO Park Jung-ho held a virtual town hall meeting on Wednesday under [...]
SUWON, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the existing framework of education being challenged by the outbreak of the coronavirus, the future of schooling will likely to undergo a paradigm shift from education to learning, a new report predicted. The Gyeonggi Research Institute (GRI) issued on Sunday a new report titled “Future Brought Forward by [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean activists will hold a rally here this weekend to support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States and remember George Floyd. Organizers said Friday they plan to gather at the central Seoul neighborhood of Myeongdong at 4 p.m. on Saturday and [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of middle and high school students have either played games or watched YouTube videos during online classes. The Institute for Progressive Education conducted a survey of 560 elementary school students, 844 middle and high school students, 785 teachers, and 696 parents from May 20 to [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Since its first coronavirus case in late January, South Korea has been appraised as one of the successful countries to control the virus spread with its quick and well-organized response and tactics. The country’s virus curve, after peaking at over 900 daily new infections in late February, had flattened [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is taking steps to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs by enabling doctors to check if patients are attempting to obtain excessive quantities of the drugs. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Thursday that it will launch a special-purpose information network to deter patients [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court has decided to begin a legal procedure that could lead to liquidating seized assets of a Japanese firm that has ignored a ruling to compensate Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor. According to the legal representatives for four Korean plaintiffs Wednesday, the Pohang branch of [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to commercialize urban air mobility (UAM) services in the domestic market in 2025 as it strives to tackle worsening traffic congestion in major cities, the transport ministry said Thursday. The government plans to begin offering UAM services initially with one to two routes, or terminals, in [...]
SEJONG, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s economic policies to deal with the post-pandemic recovery will be backed by its “Korean-version New Deal” project that will help the nation create new growth engines and jobs once the COVID-19 outbreak wanes. The project is one of the key components in the country’s economic policy for [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea started testing of quick response (QR) code-based entry logs at nightclubs, eateries and churches on Monday in its latest efforts to better track and contain the new coronavirus. Under the plan, the government will check the digital entry registers at 17 facilities in Seoul, Incheon and Daejeon [...]