SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of elderly individuals living alone in Seoul has exceeded the 350,000 level, data showed Sunday. According to data from Statistics Korea, the number of seniors over 60 years of age living alone in the capital city totaled 355,000 as of 2020, up about 30,000 compared to a [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of children come home after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and close to a half of them enjoy less than two hours of free time, a recent survey showed. The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union conducted an online survey of 1,841 children in 4th to 6th grades, [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Railroad Research Institute said it has developed an unmanned automated system that monitors the safety of railroad facilities like bridges, using drones and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The system consists of drones, a mobile control center that operates the drones and software that automatically analyzes and detects [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Life Insurance Co. announced that one of the company’s training facilities has ended its two-year use as a treatment center for COVID-19 patients. Hanhwa’s Life Park, located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, has reopened its quarters for 35 new recruits for training this year. Following the end of the [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Last month ranked as the second warmest April on record in the nation, the weather agency said Friday. Data compiled by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) showed the average temperature last month was 13.8 C, the second highest for April since nationwide record-keeping began in 1973. It was 1.7 [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of illegal narcotics confiscated in South Korea reached an all time high last year, with an increase of foreign and juvenile drug offenders, government data showed Friday. According to the data compiled by the Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO), a total of 1,295.7 kilograms of illegal drugs were [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Friday it will invest a total of 612 billion won (US$479.7 million) over the next four years to beef up the city’s public medical services, including the construction of three new city-run hospitals. The project was launched amid growing calls for an expansion of [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Thursday it will begin resuming late-night public transportation operations in the city, two years after they were reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The city government plans to extend daily subway operation hours through 1 a.m., instead of midnight on weekdays, starting sometime in [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea celebrates the centennial anniversary of Children’s Day, heightening concerns allude to stricter standards that are being forced upon children in the cultural sphere, including movie theaters and concert halls. Parents complain that it is too much to disallow children from making noise at movie theaters, especially [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a drive to promote working from home among local businesses as part of preparations for another virus wave. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters on Wednesday held a meeting with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and was briefed about the latter’s plan to [...]