SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Government inspections will be improved to focus on preventing labor violations at South Korean businesses by using big data. The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) announced comprehensive plans to improve labor inspections on Tuesday, vowing to use big data analysis to extract the list of businesses that require [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Increasing public awareness on animal welfare is leading an university to replace animal cadavers with artificial models for anatomy classes. Konkuk University’s College of Veterinary Medicine announced on Tuesday that it will introduce artificial animal models for anatomy classes starting in the fall semester. The models include those manufactured [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A ‘Safe Delivery Service for Women’ was introduced in Seoul in 2013 for the first time in South Korea. Now, a new service where safety is guaranteed for those wishing to send a package will be rolled out. ‘Safe Delivery Service for Women’ was launched as a service that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently, dozens of photos were posted on Instagram with eyeball-shaped stickers in men’s bathroom stalls. The pictures were marked with a hashtag, ‘It’s just a sticker.’ This is a follow-up to the installation art project carried out in 2017 by “Adultboy,” an installation artist and man in his 20s. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new phenomenon in South Korea is attracting much attention as YouTubers who broadcast live on the Internet often discover crime scenes or help arrest suspects. Some even say that YouTubers act as quasi-police officers or private detectives when law enforcement agencies are not on the ball. YouTuber ‘KKongji’ [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest logistics company will team up with the police to foster neighborhood safety. CJ Logistics Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has joined hands with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) to educate 100 delivery personnel on traffic safety, crime prevention, and finding missing persons. Traffic specialists [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice said Monday it will implement a program called “Mom’s Voice” from next month that allows female inmates to record themselves reading fairytales to their children. To promote the emotional stability of the inmates’ children, government officials explained, the ministry decided to run a program to [...]
JEONJU, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonju residents will have a unique opportunity to participate in a program to modify the public bus routes in the city. The Jeonju Council for Sustainable Development announced that registration is now open to recruit ‘Civil Bus Route Designers’ until August 16 to create more convenient bus routes in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government is giving parking priority to cars that cause less environmental pollution. The city said Tuesday that it will implement a system that gives extra points to vehicles with a grade 1 emissions score, and reduces points for vehicles with grade 5 emissions. The points will [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will build the world’s largest floating solar farm in a fresh water lake next to Saemangeum, a reclaimed area on the west coast, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the project to build a 2.1 gigawatt (GW) solar farm on the [...]