SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Friday sentenced a 49-year-old man to 22 years in prison for attempting to murder all three members of a neighboring family over a noise dispute. The man, whose identity was withheld, allegedly stormed into the family’s home on the third floor of an apartment building in [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The office of President Yoon Suk-yeol is considering disclosing as much information as possible about a South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korea’s military near the western sea border in 2020, informed officials said Friday. The presidential National Security Office (NSO) is determined to disclose the preceding Moon [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported fewer than 20,000 COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day Friday as the pandemic’s grip on the country appears to be loosening. The country added 16,584 new infections, including 49 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,053,287, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A second group of investors in Terraform Labs’ troubled cryptocurrencies filed complaints Friday against its co-founders on charges of fraud. The company’s coins, TerraUSD and Luna, crashed earlier this month, causing huge losses for hundreds of thousands of investors. A total of 76 people participated in the latest legal [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has slaughtered more than 1,000 pigs to try to stem the spread of African swine fever (ASF) following its first outbreak of the virus this year, the agriculture ministry said Friday. The animal disease broke out at a pig farm in Hongcheon, a county located about 100 [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun on Friday asked for the European Union to review its directive on single-use plastics, saying the rule has even regulated eco-friendly items and limited Korean firms’ market access. Ahn made the request during a meeting with EU Ambassador to South Korea Maria Castillo-Fernandez [...]
SINGAPORE, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyun Bin (Kim Tae-pyung), South Korean actor will have his image immortalized in Madame Tussauds. “When Madame Tussauds approached me for a wax figure immortalisation, I was very excited and looking forward to see the actual figure! Can’t wait to show everyone how my figure will look like, said [...]
SEOUL/YEONGJONGDO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Rhee Keun, a South Korean volunteer fighter in Ukraine, returned home Friday after sustaining knee injuries while in action. The Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, at around 7:30 a.m., about three months after he left for Ukraine to join the Russia-Ukraine war as a [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Inflation is resulting in higher lunch prices, prompting some to coin a new word “lunchflation” to describe the phenomenon. The Korea Consumer Agency reported that the price of “naemgnyeon,” cold buckwheat noodles served in various types of broth or mixed with spice, reached an average of 10,192 won as [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The four major social insurances and minimum wage will be guaranteed for domestic workers in South Korea. The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that a revised enforcement ordinance of the Domestic Worker Act passed a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. The revised enforcement ordinance stipulates that domestic workers should [...]