SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., a unit of top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., has teamed up with a foreign company to launch into the offshore wind power market. The company on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with GE Renewable Energy, a division of U.S. industrial giant [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the not-guilty verdicts of seven doctors and nurses at Ewha Womans University Medical Center in the case of deaths of four newborns by bacterial infection in December 2017. The Seoul High Court said it found the four doctors and three nurses at the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As the government is offering self-test kits to the public for initial tests for COVID-19, controversy looms over the accuracy of these kits. The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine argued that the level of accuracy for these self-test kits stands at a maximum of 41.5 percent, with a 58.5 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported the largest job growth in nearly 22 years in January as the job market improved to pre-pandemic levels due to a low base effect and the ongoing economic recovery, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 26.95 million last month, up 1.14 million [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry said Wednesday it is advising kindergarten to high school students to take rapid antigen tests at home twice a week before going to school in the upcoming semester amid a massive surge in infections. The non-binding recommendation was issued as part of a virus prevention scheme [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has relocated some of the smartphone production lines operated by its partner companies in overseas countries back to South Korea, industry sources said Tuesday, the move came after some of the company’s overseas plants suffered production disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some production lines run [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will refund COVID-19 test fees for those who test negative with self-test kits but are later confirmed positive after taking a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at a medical institution at their own expense, health authorities said. Kim Kap-jung, a senior official at the Korea Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to call formally on the New York City authorities to step up actions to counter a surge in crimes there against Asians in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials here said Tuesday. Chung Byung-hwa, South Korea’s consul general in New York, will meet [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A woman in her 40s has been killed by her former boyfriend while under police protection, officials said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of preventable deaths expected to spark calls for better protection measures for such victims. The victim, whose identity was withheld, was having a drink [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The cleanliness and sanitation of restaurants are influencing consumer choice as much as taste after the pandemic outbreak, a survey showed Sunday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Trade Corp. (aT) of 1,341 consumers between 20 and 69 years of age who ate out more [...]