SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul metropolitan government said Monday it will introduce new subway trains with wider seats beginning late next year. To be first introduced on Seoul subway’s No. 2 line, each seat will be widened so that six people can sit in a row instead of the current seven. According [...]
SEOUL, Feb.11 (Korea Bizwire) – A law change that will allow officials at public institutions to fill out civil service forms for clients based on their verbal instructions has been enacted, and is expected to lessen the burden on senior citizens and the disabled who often had difficulty filling out forms and other paperwork. At [...]
SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Passengers who ride the subway’s Bundang Line might find an orange sticker on the floor in front of their seat. The stickers are part of a campaign to stop inconvenience caused by ‘manspreading’ in subways. Two oval shaped stickers are placed in the shape of a heart. When one’s feet [...]
SEJONG, Jan.24 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has decided to implement a ‘comprehensive consumer support system’ in the form of a new smartphone application. More than 10 million pieces of product information, and 75 consumer redress services will be gathered in the new app. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed detailed plans to create [...]
SEOUL, Jan.23 (Korea Bizwire) – The People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) announced that it has opened a website that shows the actual amount of taxes paid by individuals, and where the money used. The site was named ‘Sausage’ (www.peoplepower21.org/sosegi), which is an abbreviation of the Korean words ‘income, tax, and government spending’. If a [...]
SEOUL, Jan.18 (Korea Bizwire) – With volunteer work increasingly arranged by citizens instead of government organizations, a change seems to be occurring in the concept of what ‘volunteering’ actually means. The Seoul Volunteer Center announced that it will start its ‘Strength of Citizens’ campaign, in which citizens suggest volunteer projects and gather participants for volunteer [...]
SEJONG, Jan.8 (Korea Bizwire) – With the establishment of ‘Rest Areas for Drowsiness’ on highways and national routes, the death toll from traffic accidents has dropped by more than 50 percent. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that the number of accidents that occurred between service areas decreased by 28 percent in 2015 [...]
INCEON, Jan.6 (Korea Bizwire) – The area between the northern limit line (NLL) in the West Sea and the fisheries control line of North Korea is actually the same as the DMZ. The fisheries near the five northwestern border islands are close to the NLL, and fishing in the area is banned to protect South [...]
SEOUL, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is resourcing big data to apprehend corruption dealing with the maintenance costs of apartments. The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Gyeonggi province announced that they adopted the big data method to investigate maintenance costs of apartments and [...]
JEONJU, Dec.29 (Korea Bizwire) – Finding a pharmacy open during the holidays or looking for reliable child care at night seems to be as difficult as solving a complicated riddle. First of all, there is no clue on where to even get such information from. And even if one gets in touch with such information, [...]