SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Twenty-nine Afghan evacuees airlifted to South Korea last year have been hired by a subcontractor of the shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., leading to their departure Monday from the government-provided temporary residence, officials said. The newly hired and their family members, totaling 157 people from 29 households, will move [...]
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean speed skater Kim Bo-reum had barely arrived in Beijing on Thursday evening, when she studied her dinner options at the cafeteria inside the Olympic village. And her reaction? “I wanted to go home right then and there,” Kim quipped Saturday after a training session at the National [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is rising among students attending colleges located in mountainous areas, where the population of stray cats is increasing. While many students volunteer to organize clubs to protect stray cats, others disapprove of them. The student clubs believe that protecting stray cats helps control the cat population in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2 in 3 people in their 20s and 30s have positive views about alternative meat, a survey showed Thursday. Shinsegae Food Inc., the food unit of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, conducted a survey of 1,000 people aged 20 to 39, 67.6 percent of whom felt positive [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s subway operator will introduce brand new trains equipped with free mobile phone chargers and wider seats for pregnant women starting later this month, officials said Friday. Seoul Metro, the operator of the capital’s vast subway system, will put five new trains comprising 40 passenger cars into operation on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Genesis, the luxury brand of Hyundai Motor Co., said Thursday that it had opened electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in metropolitan areas and launched a wireless charging service on a trial basis. A total of five charging stations will be set up, including two each at the Genesis exhibition [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With non-fungible tokens (NFTs) rising as a new industry trend, the film industry has also joined the rush to come up with NFT goods. Local film distribution companies are following suit after Lotte Entertainment launched NFT goods for “Matrix: Resurrection” released in December last year. The recently released Korean [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major conglomerates, known to be on the conservative side of business style compared to startups or IT firms, are stepping up to change their working culture. Samsung Electronics Co. currently plans to introduce new offices that combine the strengths of working at home and coming in to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s weekend launch of an “intermediate-and long-range” ballistic missile underscores the intransigent regime’s stated arms buildup in progress under a go-it-alone approach and its eagerness to tighten internal solidarity ahead of key political events, analysts here said Monday. In its seventh show of force this year, Pyongyang launched [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency has established new investigative teams dedicated to responding to stalking and sexual violence crimes, officials said Sunday. The agency’s National Office of Investigation has reorganized its juvenile crime and gender-based violence investigation division earlier this month into four sub teams against stalking, sexual violence, domestic [...]