SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A suicide committed by an airline employee during forced leave following the coronavirus outbreak has been recognized as a work accident. The Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service announced Tuesday that it had notified the family members of the late Korean Air Lines Co. employee in September that the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major builder in South Korea, said Tuesday that it had developed an automatic monitoring system to manage the status of temporary structures and ground conditions at construction sites in real-time to prevent collapses. Currently, temporary structures at construction sites go through manual instrumentation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of mothers has filed a complaint over “spicy meals” offered at some kindergartens, alleging that serving the same meal regardless of age amounts to a violation of human rights. Political Mamas, a civic group largely made up of mothers, said on Tuesday that children (usually 5 to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday held a ceremony launching a new frigate named after a warship torpedoed by North Korea in 2010, the Navy and state arms procurement agency said. The ceremony for the 2,800-ton frigate, Cheonan, took place at the shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. in Ulsan, some [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumers likely have to wait 12 months at most to buy a popular brand vehicle amid auto chip shortage. Imported car sale platform Getcha reported that it will take more than one year for the GV60, the first dedicated electric vehicle of Hyundai Motor Group’s luxury Genesis brand, to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean and American research teams have succeeded in raising the effects of a COVID-19 vaccine by a factor of 100 through the oriental medicine practice of cupping, which is normally used to treat muscle pain. A joint research team led by Prof. Hao Lin from Rutgers University and Dr. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest producer of urea water has lowered its output amid a growing shortage of urea, industry sources said Monday. Lotte Fine Chemical Co. has stopped part of the urea water solution production line at its factory in Ulsan, about 400 kilometers southeast of Seoul, since last week, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are increasingly turning to metaverse platforms for marketing. Metaverse, a combination of meta (meaning beyond) and verse (from universe), refers to a three-dimensional virtual shared world in which all activities can take place with the help of augmented- and virtual-reality services. BGF Retail Co., the operator [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 94 percent of South Koreans consider the climate crisis “serious,” but only half believe the issue is connected to human rights, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey of 1,500 people commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission, 80.4 percent responded that they are interested in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae has launched a task force to tackle supply shortages of urea water solution (UWS), a key material used in diesel vehicles to reduce emissions, an official said Friday. “We will establish a comprehensive response system like we have for material, components and equipment [...]