SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine supplied to South Korea was not produced in a troubled Baltimore factory that was forced to throw out about 60 million doses over possible contamination, the health ministry said Saturday. South Korea has been administering Janssen’s single-shot vaccine since Thursday to reserve forces, [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Immigration detention centers in South Korea, where foreign nationals are held till deportation, will start welcoming back visitors for the first time in seven months, officials said Friday, in accordance with changing COVID-19 circumstances. The Hwaseong Immigration Detention Center in Gyeonggi Province and the Cheongju Immigration Detention Center in [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that roughly 4 percent of military service members have had suicidal thoughts. A research team led by Prof. Lee Seung-yup from the Catholic University of Korea Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital and Dr. Yoon Chang-gyo from the World Health Organization analysed the 2014 survey conducted [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Public anger has grown this week after a court dismissed a group of forced labor victims’ damages suit against Japanese firms, with some accusing the judge of injecting his personal beliefs into the ruling and demanding that he be impeached. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case Monday, [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — For two consecutive years, the mutual perception between South Koreans and Japanese has been at its ‘worst’ since the normalization of Korea-Japan relations in 1965. South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo and Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun conducted a survey of 1,000 South Koreans and 1,063 Japanese, in which 81 percent of [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Thursday it is allowing gyms and indoor golf driving ranges in two wards to extend their business hours by two hours until midnight over a one-month trial period. Park Yoo-mi, a disease control official at the city government, said at a press briefing that [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw the annual number of drug offenders shoot up to a record high level last year, driven in part by an increase in juvenile and foreign drug criminals, a judicial report showed Thursday. According to the 2020 juridical yearbook, published recently by the Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO), [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Engineering Co., a plant construction unit of Samsung Group, said Wednesday that it had developed a next-generation three-dimensional printing technology for construction and succeeded in building a structure using the technology. The company started developing the technology from late last year and succeeded in developing the 3D printing [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Photos of BTS member Jungkook, uploaded to promote a bill on legalizing tattooing, have provoked the ire of BTS fans who say a lawmaker has unfairly dragged the K-pop star into politics. Rep. Ryu Ho-jeong of the progressive minor Justice Party posted several photos of Jungkook on her Twitter [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator on Wednesday granted the final approval for a new internet-only bank, a move that could further fuel competition with established bigger players. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) gave the approval to the consortium led by South Korean fintech firm Viva Republica, which operates the popular [...]