SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is pushing to revise a law to allow minors abused by their parents to directly file for the termination of parental rights, the justice ministry said Tuesday. The ministry made public its plan to revise the Family Litigation Act with a goal to submit the revision bill [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new law has entered effect to qualify inline skating accidents causing human injuries on the pavement as gross negligent traffic accidents. The National Police Agency recently ordered police stations around the country to consider cases in which people older than 13 years cause human injuries while riding inline [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemical company SK Chemicals Co. has launched mass production of PO3G, a new eco-friendly polyol material made of corn. The company said Monday that it launched the operation of a PO3G dedicated production facility within the site of its Ulsan plant. PO3G is a new material with [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Women in charge of both work and child-rearing are struggling with consistent breastfeeding. A joint research team from Chung-Ang University Hospital and Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong conducted a survey of 175 female employees at a local medical institution who had given birth to a child in the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of immigrant women working at social welfare institutions are being discriminated against in terms of wages and career experience, a survey showed Sunday. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions conducted a survey of 118 immigrant women working as consultants and translators at public family centers across [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Part-time employees are sharing their concerns online after the government lifted the outdoor mask mandate on Monday. “We still need to ask customers to wear a mask indoors, right?” one of the part-time job workers said. “A lot of people come to the place I work at. My mouth will blister [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea vowed Monday to strengthen the monitoring of palm oil supplies following Indonesia’s recent ban of its exports amid the continued crisis surrounding Ukraine. Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer, announced the ban on palm oil exports on April 28, citing a domestic supply squeeze following the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s icebreaker is on its way to the southeastern port of Busan after completing a 195-day international exploration mission in the Antarctic Ocean, the oceans ministry said Monday. The Araon, South Korea’s first ice breaking vessel, kicked off its mission to the South Pole on Oct. 20 last [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker, said Sunday it received more than 1,500 orders for its all-electric IONIQ 5 in Indonesia, less than a week after releasing the prices. Hyundai Motor received 1,587 orders for the IONIQ 5 in Indonesia from April 22-27, more than doubling overall electric [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans on Friday welcomed the government’s decision to lift the outdoor mask mandate, voicing hopes for a complete return to maskless normalcy, but some remain wary about lingering COVID-19 infection risks. Starting Monday, mask wearing will no longer be mandatory in outdoor places, except when people attend gatherings [...]