SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO, said Monday it has signed a deal with a Norwegian electric vehicle (EV) battery maker on development and supply of key EV battery components in a bid to tap deeper into the European market. Under the contract with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled for the first time that gender can be corrected without surgery to remove reproductive organs or to modify external genitals. Tthe Suwon District Court said it recently allowed the correction of gender in a case filed by a transgender individual in his 20s. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children can be measured using stool samples. Researchers from Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital compared and analyzed the intestinal microbiome structure in the feces of 54 children with ADS who visited the hospital and 38 children without [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Sunday it will begin normalizing late-night public transportation operations on weekdays, months after they were reduced due to social distancing measures against COVID-19. It plans to put intra-city buses and subway lines No. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 back in normal operation [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Sunday it has decided to order Nissan Motor Corp., Porsche AG and their two Korean units to take corrective steps for falsified information over gas emissions of their diesel cars. Nissan Motor, Nissan Korea, Porsche and Porsche Korea are alleged to have stated false [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry on Friday ordered the military to drop its plan to challenge a court ruling that said it was unjust for the military to discharge a transgender soldier over her gender reassignment surgery. Justice Minister Park Beom-kye accepted a recommendation from an advising committee on administrative suits [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Three quarters of South Koreans agree with the need to shift to the “living with COVID-19″ scheme, a poll said Friday, as the government is moving to phase out coronavirus restrictions under the new policy next month. According to the survey conducted early this month on 1,083 people aged [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Edison Motors Co., the likely preferred bidder for financially troubled SsangYong Motor Co., said Friday it aims to turn around SsangYong in three to five years by focusing on transforming it into an electric vehicle-focused carmaker. On Wednesday, SsangYong and its court-appointed lead manager recommended a local consortium led [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea said Friday it will stop using disposable cups at all of its stores on South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju within this year in the latest move to protect the environment. Starbucks said it eliminated all single-use cups at four of its stores on Jeju [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator plans to begin a probes into Starbucks-issued unregistered pre-paid cards. The Financial Supervisory Service has received a list of some 50 companies, including Starbucks Coffe Korea, which are operating an unregistered prepaid card system. Starbucks allows customers to charge their Starbucks cards through its mobile [...]