SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled against South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor in a damages suit filed against Japanese companies, apparently on grounds that the cases’ statute of limitations has expired. The suit was filed against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kumagai Gumi Co. by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In contrast to the common beliefs that a decline in face-to-face contact and increase in the use of media resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic would decrease the level of social cohesion, non-face-to-face contact via media can actually contribute to increasing social cohesion, a study showed Tuesday. A research [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans support the acquisition of nuclear weapons either through indigenous development or the deployment of U.S. assets, a survey showed Tuesday. When asked to choose between the two options, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed favored South Korea developing its own weapons, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The fast spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has led to daily infections of more than 100,000 people, but it has barely changed the everyday lives of office workers and college students. Many public institutions and private businesses have made few or no changes to their current work-at-home [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Street views of all 14,699 alleyways in Seoul, including those of narrow back alleys unavailable even in commercial road view services, will be available within the first half of this year, the city government said Tuesday. The city government created 53,715 images of the alleys over the past two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean home appliance makers are offering upgrade services for previously sold products as part of their customer lock-in strategy. On Feb. 10, when Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled new Galaxy S22 smartphones, the company revealed a plan to extend its Android OS upgrade policy from three to four years. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Low-income regions highly populated with seniors, disabled individuals and immigrants are more vulnerable to a pandemic like COVID-19, a report said Sunday. A research team from the Korea Institute of Public Administration studied the exposure (how easily a disease may spread), susceptibility (how much a disease can incur physical, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The average monthly salary of wage earners rose 3.6 percent on-year in 2020 from a year earlier despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a government report showed Monday. South Korean wage workers earned a monthly average of 3.2 million won (US$2,669) in December 2020, up from 3.09 million won a year [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is thinking seriously about sharing its liquefied natural gas (LNG) inventories with Europe amid looming supply disruptions sparked by the Ukraine crisis, officials said Sunday. “The government is seriously contemplating supporting Europe should the situation aggravate in Ukraine and create difficulties in the supply of natural gas,” [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Courts in three cities on Friday ruled against the government’s plan to expand the COVID-19 vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds, following recent similar decisions by courts in Seoul and Suwon. The Daejeon District Court ruled in favor of 96 plaintiffs, including teenagers, who opposed the planned [...]