SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teachers are less satisfied with their jobs with the rate of those who said they would become teachers if they were born again falling sharply, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey conducted by the Korean Federation of Teachers Associations of 8,431 teachers at kindergartens, elementary, [...]
BUSAN, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new attempt will be made to recycle the solar panels used for the nation’s industrial standards certification — known as KS certification — for the establishment of solar polar generators at welfare facilities. The Busan metropolitan government said Wednesday it had signed a business agreement with the Korea [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of single-person households in Seoul are satisfied with living alone, but struggle with difficulties arising in emergencies, a survey showed Tuesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government conducted a survey of 3,079 people living alone, of which 86.2 percent were satisfied with solitary life, up by 13 percentage points [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Banning high school students from using cellphones and other kinds of electronic devices inside dormitory rooms infringes upon their human rights, the state rights watchdog said Wednesday. A high school student, whose name was withheld, from an undisclosed school in North Gyeongsang Province filed a petition with the National [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A new disposable cup deposit system will enter effect for coffee shops, bakeries and fast food outlets across the country at the beginning of June. Nonetheless, controversy remains unabated. At present, many businesses subject to the new deposit program are concerned about how to prepare for the rollout. Thanks [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has recommended the government take steps to provide vegetarian inmates at correctional institutions with proper vegetarian meals, officials said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission made the recommendation last month, urging the justice minister to revise the relevant law or come up with a [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 15 percent of households in South Korea are unable to balance their budget, a local think tank said. According to the last year’s study on household finance and welfare conducted by the Korea Institute of Finance, 17.2 percent (3.54 million) of the 20.52 million households in the [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul saw greenhouse gas emissions by the industrial and transportation sectors decline during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic while emissions by households increased, officials said Tuesday. The estimated total greenhouse gas emissions in the city reached 45.46 million tons last year, down 0.3 [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has developed a homegrown radar technology to identify and track ballistic missile warheads as part of efforts to strengthen the nation’s air defense, its state-run military research agency said Tuesday. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has secured the technology designed to discern warheads of hostile missiles [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Software as a Service (SaaS), which accounts for the largest share of the world’s public cloud services, is growing at a rapid pace, with the South Korea’s IT industry placing a bigger emphasis on the technology. NHN Dooray, the SaaS unit of NHN Corp., attracted an investment of 20 [...]