SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Thursday it will ease some preventive measures against avian influenza and instead provide more incentives to chicken farms. Under the plan, the ministry will spare birds from poultry farms that have strictly followed preventive measures in case of another outbreak of the highly contagious [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. has been found to be engaged in illegal marketing by offering foreigners additional subsidies in exchange for subscribing to the company’s service plans, generating criticism that the company’s reckless activities to attract more subscribers while evading regulations have resulted in discrimination against South Koreans. Industry sources [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Financial damage caused by cryptocurrency-related crimes has totaled more than 5.5 trillion won (US$4.9 billion) since 2017, a lawmaker said Wednesday, citing data from police. According to Rep. Yun Chang-hyun of the main opposition People Power Party, the National Police Agency (NPA) estimated the damage to be 467 billion [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, on Wednesday broke ground for a plant in South Korea to extract lithium hydroxide, a key material for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The ceremony came nearly seven weeks after POSCO’s board of directors approved the plan to build a plant in the [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced Wednesday that people who have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine will no longer be required to wear masks outdoors starting in July, as part of incentives for those participating in the public vaccine campaign. The incentive program announced at a daily interagency coronavirus [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners staying in South Korea has registered remarkable growth over the past 30 years. According to a report released by Kang Dong-won, head of the state-run Migration Research and Training Center, the number of foreign residents in the country totaled about 2.5 million in 2019, about a [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — All employees of adult entertainment businesses across the country have been ordered to take coronavirus tests, officials said Tuesday, as many local governments are struggling to cope with the latest hotbeds for virus outbreaks. Adult entertainment establishments, such as bars, clubs and karaoke rooms, in Daegu, Daejeon, Ulsan and [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the raging coronavirus pandemic, teenagers have turned out to receive most stress from ‘anger towards others’. The state-run Korea Youth Counseling and Welfare Institute conducted an online survey of 862 teenagers and young adults between 9 and 24 years of age, in which ‘anger towards others’ scored 3.76 [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 childcare center teachers in South Korea believe the coronavirus pandemic has reduced language development opportunities for preschoolers, a poll showed Monday. In the poll of 709 teachers at national and public daycare centers in the greater Seoul area, 74.9 percent agreed with the view that children’s [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s average number of cases to determine the status of refugees each month from January to March has set a new record. The Korea Immigration Service reported that the number of deliberations on the status of refugees reached 3,638 cases between January and March of this year, which [...]