SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and a steelmaker have joined hands to make iron with livestock excrement. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs signed an agreement with the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and Hyundai Steel Co. to produce solid fuel from cow excrement. They plan to use livestock excrements to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of restaurants, cafes and other small businesses across the country vented outrage on Thursday after the government announced it will restore tough social distancing measures following a spike in coronavirus cases and deaths. Earlier in the day, the government said it will reduce the maximum private gathering size [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools in the greater Seoul area will roll back their full in-person classes and go back to partial e-learning starting next week in line with the country’s tightened anti-COVID-19 curbs, the education ministry announced Thursday. Under its restored e-learning scheme, middle and high schools in the greater capital area [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Police will take stalking suspects into custody in high-risk cases as part of efforts to bolster victim protection, officials said Wednesday, after facing criticism for failing to provide due protection to victims in two recent stalking murder cases. The measure was announced as part of the Seoul Metropolitan Police [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Two years into the pandemic era, protective masks have become so deeply rooted in everyday life that, for many, not wearing one feels uncomfortable. An increasing number of students at a local middle school are opting to skip lunch as they try to stay away from eating together in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — KT&G Corp., South Korea’s dominant tobacco company, will suspend its tobacco business in the United States for an unspecified period, the company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday. “We need to conduct a review of our business in the U.S. amid intensifying regulations over tobacco and growing competition,” the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean men in their 30s and 40s are obese, with the prevalence rate of obesity surging for men last year, a government report showed Tuesday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) revealed the results of the 2020 national health and nutrition survey [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of next year’s presidential and local elections, the government is reviewing the idea of expanding the so-called ‘at-home voting system’ for those quarantined at home or at quarantine facilities for COVID-19. “We submitted a plan to expand coverage of the ‘at-home voting system’ to include those quarantined at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry on Tuesday promised to come up with measures to improve its plan to place cram schools under the government vaccine pass system amid strong opposition from students and parents, officials said. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae held a meeting with representatives of the Korea Association of Hakwon [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are buying wider range of luxury goods from handbags to watches, jewelry, scarves and perfumes. Market researcher Euromonitor reported 4.6 percent growth in South Korea’s luxury market from last year, reaching an aggregate total of US$14.2 billion. Aside from sales of luxury cosmetics, which have struggled during [...]