SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will push for a law to ensure the right to be forgotten for underage people so they can ask for the removal of pictures, videos or other information uploaded by parents and friends without their consent, officials said Monday. Under the envisioned enactment jointly announced by the [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Many young South Koreans are turning to online blogs to write journals. The country’s top internet portal operator, Naver Corp. reported that following the ‘weekly journal-writing challenge’ program that encouraged bloggers to write journal entries every week, the number of new blogs jumped by 14 percent, 80 percent of [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Eco-friendly vehicles accounted for more than 30 percent of South Korea’s total car exports in the first five months of the year on strong overseas demand and the debut of two major electric vehicles made by local automakers in the U.S. market, data showed Monday. The value of exported [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s electricity transaction volume touched a new all-time high in the first half of the year due to eased social distancing restrictions and an early heat wave, data showed Monday. The volume of power traded in Asia’s fourth-largest economy stood at 269,432 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in the January-June period, [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Philip Goldberg, the new U.S. ambassador to South Korea, arrived in the country Sunday to begin his duty, as the allies seek to reinforce their ties amid North Korea’s evolving military threats. The post has been vacant for 1 1/2 years since the departure of Harry Harris, timed with [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The sales of green cars, such as electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, jumped more than 40 percent in South Korea in the first half of this year from a year earlier, industry data showed Sunday, reflecting the growing popularity of electrified vehicles in the country. The number of green [...]
YEONGJONG ISLAND, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — June Huh, the Korean American mathematician who won this year’s prestigious Fields Medal, said Friday he is “happy and delighted” to win the award and pledged to play a greater role in advancing the field of mathematics in South Korea. Huh made the remarks upon arrival at Incheon [...]
KUNSAN AIR BASE, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — F-16 fighters roared over a key U.S. air base in the southwestern city of Gunsan while ground maintenance staff checked JADAM penetrator bombs and others added to its evolving arsenal new technologies like “dronebusters.” The routine yet indispensable daily operations on Thursday underscored their priority on readiness [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With Princeton University professor June Huh becoming the first-ever scholar of Korean descent to win the prestigious Fields Medal, education experts in South Korea are pointing out the need to reflect on the country’s current mathematics education system. The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation reported that among students [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that it will develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) service that automatically searches and deletes video footage of sexual crime online. The service is capable of tracking down videos of sexual crime online with high accuracy, sending out requests to take the videos [...]