SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul hospital has become the first medical institution in South Korea to enable nurses to input and store medical records via voice recordings in real time. The Catholic University of Korea Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital unveiled the Vobile (voice + mobile) electronic nursing record (ENR) system that allows [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — General Motors Co. said Sunday it has started the production of the Trax Crossover at its South Korean plant ahead of its local launch in the first quarter. GM plans to ramp up the strategic model’s production to meet the rising demand for the new vehicle in the United [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The top 0.1 percent of wealthy individuals in South Korea earned nearly 70 times more than the median income earners in 2021, data showed Saturday. Statistics from the National Tax Service cited by Rep. Yang Kyung-sook of the opposition Democratic Party also showed the share of the total income [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to provide US$130 million in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on the occasion of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday. The government reaffirmed its position through the ministry’s statement that the “sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine must be respected.” The [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is considering offering greater flexibility to companies with regard to the 52-hour workweek, by allowing them to extend the maximum weekly work hours to either 64 or 69 hours. The workweek system introduced in 2018 limits overtime work to 12 hours per week to ensure the total [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech companies are increasingly incorporating ChatGPT into other services. Healthcare platform Gooddoc released a ChatGPT-based health artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot service on Tuesday. The new service utilizes ChatGPT to respond to questions related to health and medical procedures within just one second, enhancing utility. Software education startup [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — High school students learn about economics primarily from television shows and social media, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Economy and Finance conducted a survey of 750 elementary, middle, and high school students, in which 47.1 percent of high schoolers said they learn about economics mostly from “news [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Conflicts over repair costs accounted for the largest share of commercial lease disputes in Seoul last year, the city government said said Thursday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, 188 dispute cases were filed with the commercial lease dispute coordination committee last year, of which 28.2 percent or 53 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the current law stipulating a prison sentence of at least seven years for those charged with trespassing into someone else’s house to commit sexual offenses is unconstitutional. The court unanimously made the ruling in response to separate petitions from the Jeonju District Court [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon International Airport will take a leap forward to become an eco-friendly airport through the construction of a large liquefied hydrogen charging station. SK Plug Hyverse on Wednesday signed a business agreement for the establishment of eco-friendly airport infrastructure with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Incheon [...]