SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukraine’s top envoy to Seoul on Friday expressed hope for weapons aid from South Korea to help fight the war with Russia. Ukrainian Ambassador to South Korea Dmytro Ponomarenko made the remark to reporters after a meeting with Lee Jun-seok, the chief of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States returned parcels of its military’s Yongsan Garrison in central Seoul to South Korea, officials said Friday, allowing Seoul to speed up its plan to build a public park near the presidential office. The return of 51,000 square meters of land inside the garrison included its southern [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s adult entertainment businesses, such as bars, clubs and karaoke rooms, are recovering at a rapid pace thanks to the lifting of COVID-19 social distancing rules, a credit card issuer said Thursday. The use of credit cards at adult entertainment establishments associated with gatherings after 7 p.m. marked [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of a head of a nursing hospital in a case involving the death of an elderly patient who committed suicide by jumping from his hospital room. The Supreme Court said it upheld not-guilty verdicts issued by an appeals court for [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 10,000 on Thursday due to fewer tests being conducted amid the previous day’s local elections. The country added 9,898 COVID-19 infections, including 32 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,129,313, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Daily [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The land ministry said Thursday it plans to temporarily open to the public part of the site for an envisioned national park near the presidential office in central Seoul starting next week. Part of the site in Yongsan — once used as a garrison for the U.S. Forces Korea [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea continued to grow in April as eased virus curbs and the economic recovery boosted demand for travel services and foodstuffs, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 16.5 trillion won (US$13.2 billion) in April, up 11.9 percent from the previous [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean financial companies are beefing up efforts to foster their own characters based on judgment that they would help attract more customers. Among the characters that are famous in the banking industry is Shinhan Bank’s polar bear “SOL,” designed based on the motif of the Little Bear that [...]
JEJU, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A project is underway to use insects like ptecticus tenebrifers to deal with rotten tangerines and food waste on the southern resort island of Jeju. The Jeju Agricultural Technology Center said Wednesday it is carrying out an organic resource processing technology trial project in collaboration with local company Insung [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice is planning to replace detention facilities used to incarcerate foreigners prior to deportation with alternative institutions that ensure the right of movement and freedom for foreigners. The ministry announced that it is seeking research projects for the establishment of ‘alternative forms of detention facilities for [...]