SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – With a plummeting birth rate and soaring life expectancy, care workers are emerging as one of the crucial professions in an aging South Korea where seniors now account for over 14 percent of the country’s population, but pressing issues such as difficult working conditions and poor treatment still remain [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Government funding for startups is bearing fruit after a report released on August 9 by the Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups revealed that government-sponsored startups had hiring increases that were five to six times higher than at small and medium-sized [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines held a special science and engineering class for female students at its second aircraft hangar at Incheon Airport on Thursday as part of K-girls Day, an event devised to raise awareness and interest in engineering among women. According to the airline on Friday, the education program was held [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Members of animal rights group Care staged a unique performance protest in Gwanghwamun Square on Wednesday, sending a defiant message to the public that the overconsumption of egg products must stop. The protest, which was held in the wake of the recent egg contamination scandal that swept South Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A book-themed village, a community built around the culture of reading books, is set to be built in Seoul, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced. According to the plans revealed on Wednesday, the book-reading community will be built over 1,625 square meters of land in Jungnang District in northwestern [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Just like the phrase ‘Netflix and Chill’ has become an inseparable part of the modern dating culture in the West in recent years, the lexicon of dating has been expanding on the other side of the world in South Korea also. The newly coined phrase ‘You wanna eat ramen before [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A bullying case involving a group of female middle school students brutalizing a fellow student in Busan has turned into a national issue as the outpouring of public rage has prompted many to question police competence and juvenile criminal law. On September 1, a group of four girls gave [...]
JEONJU, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fire authorities are urging hikers to take caution during the autumn months as an increasing number of climbing accidents occur in September and October. According to Jeonbuk Fire Safety Headquarters, the number of climbing accidents reported between 2012 and 2016 in North Jeolla Province alone amounted to 2,505 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A labor union representing part-time workers held a protest on Monday in central Seoul against the South Korean unit of McDonald’s, calling on the international fast food giant to take the forthcoming contract negotiations seriously. During a press conference in support for the global day of action for fast food [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A sense of true stability may be a foreign concept in a country still divided and technically at war for the 64th year and counting. Perhaps South Korea can begin importing this ‘sense’ after it renegotiates its Free Trade Agreement with the United States, as Donald Trump wants. Late [...]