SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A disability advocacy group resumed its rush-hour subway protest campaign Monday calling for a state budget for enhancing disability rights, leaving early morning trains on Subway Line 5 delayed by nearly an hour. Demanding a budget for disability rights, including the right to free movement, dozens of wheelchair-bound activists [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities, a quasi-governmental agency under the Ministry of Employment and Labor, said Sunday it will collect big data for the next three months which will be used for the development of a pedestrian navigation service for the disabled. The project was launched [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose around 10 percent in June from a year ago as the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions boosted demand for travel and leisure services and food, data showed Monday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 16.8 trillion won (US$12.9 billion) in June, up [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Apartment transactions in South Korea fell more than 50 percent on-year in the first half of 2022 due mainly to the government’s tough lending curbs and rising interest rates, data showed Sunday. The number of apartments traded nationwide stood at 184,134 units in the January-June period, down 50.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean high jumper Woo Sang-hyeok has risen to No. 1 in the official world rankings after winning the silver medal at the world championships last week. According to the latest rankings by the World Athletics on Friday, Woo scored 1,388 points to top the list for men’s high [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A special parliamentary committee on improving people’s livelihoods on Friday passed a bill raising the flexibility rate of fuel taxes from the current 30 percent to 50 percent until the end of 2024 as part of efforts to lower skyrocketing oil prices. The committee also approved a bill expanding [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Heritage experts on Friday conducted an on-site inspection of an iconic hackberry tree featured in the popular TV series “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” to review whether it is valuable enough to be designated as a natural monument. The tree, presumed to be 500 years old, is located on a hill [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Navy has decided to allow female sailors to serve on submarines for the first time, starting in 2024, its officials said Friday, a move to broaden their military roles amid prospects of troop shortages caused by the country’s low birthrate. The Navy made the decision during Thursday’s [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Credit card spending in South Korea jumped in the second quarter, buoyed by eased antivirus measures, data showed Friday. Spending made with credit, debit and prepaid cards came to 280.7 trillion won (US$216.2 billion) in the April-June period, up 14.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea offered an apology Thursday over a toxic chemical substance found in its giveaway bags in a move to assuage safety concerns of customers. The move came after a user of an anonymous community app called Blind claimed earlier this month that formaldehyde was found on Starbucks’ “summery [...]