SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju will adopt an e-travel authorization system for foreign arrivals from visa-free nations starting next month, officials said Friday. The plan to introduce the Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA) came after hundreds of Thai tourists who recently entered Jeju for tourism disappeared or [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — About 6 out of 10 workers at South Korean shipbuilding companies turned out to be “non-affiliated” employees of subcontractors rather than the shipbuilders that use their services, government data showed Thursday. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, there were around 5.2 million regular workers hired by the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — An artist management company established by world famous singer Psy has come under investigation by the labor ministry over the death of an outsourced worker during the dismantling of facilities after a Psy concert, officials said Thursday. The ministry’s Gangwon Province branch office began a raid on P Nation’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s veterans ministry is pushing to introduce parking spots reserved for war veterans at supermarkets, hotels and other public facilities out of deference to their sacrifices for the nation, an official said Thursday. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs has been in consultation with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Apartments in taller buildings are more expensive in the greater Seoul area, a real estate big data company said Wednesday. Real Estate R114 made a price comparison of 3,403,812 apartments in the greater Seoul area sorted by floor, which showed that the average apartment price in buildings that are [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s affluent Gangnam District has the highest average salary per resident among all cities, counties and districts in the country, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Kim Hoi-jae of the main opposition Democratic Party analyzed the Annual National Tax Statistics report, which showed that each Gangnam resident made an average [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo were not named on iPhone maps in the U.S., Britain and 20 other countries, according to a professor in Seoul Thursday, amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan’s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings. Dokdo has long been a recurring source of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will seek a joint response with the European Union over the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act that excludes electric vehicles assembled outside of North America from tax incentives, the industry ministry said Thursday. The law, signed by U.S. President Joe Biden last week, calls for the expansion of [...]
SUWON, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) solution that can set the appropriate cargo freight rate by using about 2 million big data records, including the day of the week, transportation time and weather. The Gyeonggi Provincial Government said Tuesday that scientists from Kyonggi University, who [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The unattended deaths of a poverty-stricken mother and two daughters in Suwon early this week raised the alarm about those struggling with hardships under the social welfare radar and a leaky welfare system that failed to locate and help them. The 60-something mother and her two daughters in their [...]