SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest port city of Busan said Wednesday it has partnered with the U.N. agency focusing on sustainable urbanization and the U.S. tech company Oceanix to build the world’s first prototype floating city near a Busan port. Busan, the UN-Habitat and Oceanix have unveiled the design of the [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next month, new or renovated cafes and restaurants with a floor space of more than 50 square meters will be required to have convenience facilities for the disabled installed, including wheelchair ramps. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Tuesday that a partial revision of the enforcement ordinance [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Beyond the typical display of the newest strategic weapons and hard-bitten warriors at this week’s military parade, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a more menacing move: the threat to use nuclear arms in case of encroachment on his country’s “fundamental rights.” During Monday’s parade marking the 90th founding [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest 397.5 billion won (US$318 million) in building charging stations for electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles this year in an effort to foster the next-generation car industry, a senior government official said Tuesday. The government also plans to focus on building the infrastructure and developing technology [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Office workers and students who had been enjoying indoor, solitary hours when social distancing measures were still in place during the pandemic are now worried about giving up that lifestyle. Those with introverted personalities, in particular, are beginning to feel more frustrations. “I was always able to use the [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — While the overall situation appears to be improving, 1 in 4 office workers are still being subject to harassment in the workplace, a survey showed Sunday. Gabjil 119, an advocacy group for workplace bullying victims conducted a survey of 2,000 office workers, in which 23.5 percent said they had [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae will open to the public at noon on May 10, immediately after President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s inauguration ceremony, in line with Yoon’s promise to return the compound to the people, officials said Monday. Visits can be booked in advance online starting Wednesday at [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of instant noodles soared 20 percent on-year in March on the global popularity of Korean pop culture amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy exported US$71.58 million worth of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, last month, up from $59.62 million a year [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of apartments that median income households can afford to buy in Seoul has declined sharply over the past five years, primarily due to a surge in housing prices. According to the data that Rep. Chung Woo-taik of the People Power Party received from the National Assembly Budget [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol expected to commute to the new presidential office in central Seoul from his private home for about a month after his inauguration while his official residence is renovated, officials said Sunday. Yoon has decided to remodel what is now the foreign minister’s residence into his official [...]