SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska made an emphatic appeal Thursday for unflagging global solidarity behind her country’s struggle against Russia’s aggression, stressing the “democratic values of the entire world” are at stake in the prolonged conflict. In an exclusive written interview with Yonhap News Agency, the first of its [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court on Thursday ruled in favor of the comprehensive real estate holding tax, a controversial additional tax burden imposed on expensive house owners. The Seoul Administrative Court rejected two lawsuits filed separately by two Seoul residents demanding that comprehensive real estate holding taxes levied on their respective [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A banner has been placed in front of the U.S. embassy building to protest the new U.S. ambassador to South Korea Philip Goldberg’s gender orientation. The banner contains expressions written both in Korean and English that slander the new ambassador, but is has yet to be taken down. The [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Public awareness commercials produced by the South Korean government have inadvertently contributed to the Korean wave. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that two of the country’s anti-smoking advertisements will be remade in Vietnam, following requests from the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Vietnam and the [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean and foreign migrants fell to the lowest level in 18 years last year as the COVID-19 pandemic restricted cross-border movements by people, data showed Thursday. The number of international migrants, referring to those who stay for more than 90 days here, declined 347,000, or [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have been conducting their first combined air drills here involving their respective F-35A stealth fighters, Seoul officials said Thursday, in an apparent show of force against North Korea’s evolving military threats. The four-day drills kicked off Monday amid lingering concerns that Pyongyang could [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of elementary school parents near the presidential office has filed a petition asking police to take steps to safeguard their children from noise and other hazards from constant rallies around the top office. A series of rallies have been held near the new presidential office in Yongsan, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has formally recognized the independence of two pro-Russian separatist “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine, becoming the world’s third nation to do so, according to the North’s state media Thursday. The North’s Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui sent letters to her counterparts in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — As movie theaters are seeing a return of customers with the end of social distancing, the aftermath of staff cuts during the pandemic era is being felt by customers. Three major multiplexes in the summer peak season have taken measures to run movie theaters with minimal staffing, introducing policies [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. is being criticized for listing all of Mount Paektu’s Cheonji crater lake in northern North Korea as part of Chinese territory on its map application on iPhones, iPads and Macbooks. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a South Korean civic organization, said Tuesday that searching for [...]