SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will push for the lifting of a ban on public access to North Korean television and media channels, a top official on inter-Korean relations told lawmakers Friday. The government will seek to “gradually” open the door for North Korean broadcasts, media and publications in an [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An international military culture expo opened in a central South Korean city Friday with an aim to showcase the country’s advanced defense capabilities, enhance mutual understanding among world militaries and promote global peace. The Gyeryong World Military Culture Expo is to run through Oct. 23 on a runway just [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Military Academy (KMA) and a veterans association established an additional monument to commemorate 14 U.S. Military Academy graduates who were killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, their officials said Friday. The monument was erected at the academy in Seoul to remember the West Pointers who graduated from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — As pediatrics and gynecology clinics continue to shut down, certain regions are struggling with the lack of pediatricians and gynecologists, government data showed Thursday. Rep. Song Seog-jun of the People Power Party referred to a report from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which showed that 16 regions in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Motional, a joint venture set up between Hyundai Motor Co. and U.S. mobility startup Aptiv, said Friday it has signed a 10-year deal to supply Hyundai’s IONIQ 5-based autonomous vehicles to Uber Technologies Inc. Under the deal, Motional will supply the all-electric IONIQ 5 driverless robo taxis to the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 South Korean webtoon artists have experienced unfair contracts, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a report that Rep. Yoo Jung-ju of the Democratic Party received from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 30.3 percent of 871 surveyed webtoon artists said that they had signed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of surgical abortions legally carried out over the past five years is estimated to account for a mere one-tenth of all abortions conducted, indicating that a large portion of abortions take place outside of legal boundaries, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Rep. Shin Hyun-young of the Democratic Party [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 individuals who missed mobile phone bill payments turned out to be in their 20s or 30s, data showed Tuesday. According to the data that Rep. Lee Jung-mun of the Democratic Party received from the Ministry of Science and ICT, the number of cases in which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has called on the government to improve the status of residence for foreign single parents who are staying here raising their children of Korean nationality, officials said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) made the recommendation to the justice minister in connection with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s young, single-person households are focusing on their savings, contrary to previous expectations that they would focus on consumption, influenced by the YOLO — You Only Live Once — culture, a report showed Monday. KB Financial Group Research Institute conducted a nationwide survey of 2,000 male and female [...]