SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners seeking employment in South Korea under the Employment Permit System (EPS) will be offered access to a free online Korean language course starting next year, a state-run resource development company said Monday. The Human Resources Development Service of Korea said it has forged a partnership with King Sejong [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors have been snapping up shares of electric vehicle-themed exchange traded fund (ETF) while dumping shares of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., data showed Sunday. The most-sold stocks by retail investors during the five weeks from Nov. 1 to Dec. 3 were the two [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group ranked first on a list measuring carmakers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in China for the sixth consecutive year. The South Korea’s top automotive conglomerate, which has Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. under its wing, announced that in the 2021 China CSR development index evaluated [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will increase the number of electric vehicle chargers at highway service areas nationwide to over 1,000 by the end of 2022, the transport ministry said Sunday. Currently, there are 435 EV chargers at the country’s highway rest stops. The government plans to increase the number to 730 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Travelers returning home Friday from short-term overseas trips were embarrassed to learn that they must self-isolate at home for 10 days under the government’s emergency quarantine rule announced only two days earlier to stem the spread of the omicron COVID-19 variant. The 10-day mandatory quarantine for all inbound travelers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea fell 31 percent in November from a year earlier as chip shortages continued to disrupt vehicle production and sales, an industry association said Friday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles fell to 18,810 units last month from 27,436 units a year [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A live video of singer-songwriter IU on media channel Dingo was the most viewed video on YouTube in South Korea this year, the company said Thursday. “IU’s Killing Voice Live,” the 18-minute video of IU singing live on YouTube’s Dingo Music channel, ranked first with over 30 million views, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of people across Seoul have been choosing to cancel or put off year-end gatherings and opting to work from home amid a surge in new virus patients and the confirmation of the country’s first omicron variant cases, according to anecdotes Thursday. South Korea confirmed five omicron [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that people with longer working hours are more likely to have bad life habits, including heavy smoking and drinking, that could have a negative impact on their health. A joint research team from the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital and the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. said Thursday their combined sales in the United States fell 13 percent last month from a year earlier amid the global chip shortage. Hyundai and Kia sold a total of 89,663 vehicles in the world’s most important automobile market in November [...]