SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers bought more liquor and cigarettes from convenience stores last year, data showed Thursday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) collected statistical data from 60,000 middle and high school students, in which their level of access to cigarettes grew from 67 percent to 74.8 percent and liquor [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Law school students at Seoul National University (SNU) have helped Pakistani nationals facing the risk of honor killing acquire refugee status in South Korea. The Seoul High Court recently ruled against the Korea Immigration Office’s earlier decision not to recognize the Pakistani family as refugees. The Pakistani father has [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Police are pushing for the introduction of an online search of criminal suspects’ mobile phones and other digital devices, officials said Friday. The National Office of Investigation at the Korean National Police Agency has recently announced a public bid for research services to review the legality of online search [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced a plan to launch a pilot program to address irregular shift work for nurses at 58 medical institutions across the country, starting from Friday. For the participating medical institutions, night-shift nurses will be assigned and replacement and backup nurses will also [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled Thursday that it was legitimate for the South Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles to deny a visa for Korean-American singer Steve Yoo, who has been banned from entering the country since 2002 for draft dodging. Yoo, also known by his Korean name Yoo Seung-jun, [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to send part of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to Europe to help ease an energy crisis over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said Thursday. Concerns have grown over natural gas supply disruptions in Europe amid the ongoing crisis surrounding Ukraine, as Russia is the [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer people exercise regularly and more people are experiencing stress or depressive symptoms following the coronavirus outbreak, research showed Wednesday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency conducted a study on adults over 19 years of age between 2019 and 2021, which showed that indices related to their physical [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator said it has decided to toughen its screening of suspicious insurance cases as part of efforts to prevent the excessive disbursement of insurance payouts through overtreatment. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) made an advance notice on the revision to the ‘insurance fraud prevention model standards’ [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SNT Motiv Co., a local defense firm, said Wednesday it had developed a next-generation rifle that can penetrate high-performance bullet-proof vests. SNT Motiv said it had completed the development of a next-generation high-power rifle in collaboration with ammunition manufacture Poongsan Corp. to cope with the improvement in the performance of safety applications [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite its stated push for a formidable arsenal of nukes and delivery systems, North Korea appears to still have a long way to go before achieving what it desires, especially technology to miniaturize warheads, according to an expert here at a state-run institute Wednesday. The assessment by Lee Sang-min, [...]