SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is pushing to revise local immigration laws to allow migrant workers from overseas to land parcel sorting jobs amid growing concerns over the industry’s manpower shortage and notoriously long work hours, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice recently preannounced a revision of an enforcement decree on [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s airfreight exports jumped to account for 36 percent of the country’s overall exports last year, industry data showed Tuesday, on higher demand for chips and biohealth products. Of the country’s combined exports of US$512.5 billion in 2020, air transport accounted for $183 billion, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — “Minari,” the drama film about a KoreanAmerican immigrant family, on Monday earned six nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards, including best picture and best supporting actress for South Korean Youn Yuh-jung. In the final list of nominees unveiled by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for this [...]
JEJU, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Political and civic conflict over the proposed construction of a new international airport on Jeju Island appears to be intensifying, with supporters and opponents of the project holding a string of separate rallies in the city of Jeju in recent weeks. Justice Party lawmaker Sim Sang-jeung, flanked by a [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent protest march in South Korea by Buddhist monks and Myanmar activists calling for democracy in Myanmar by throwing their bodies to the ground is gaining attention in the Southeast Asian nation. Four monks from the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, joined by students and activists from Myanmar, [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency said Monday that more than 2,400 delinquent taxpayers have stashed away 36.6 billion won (US$32.2 million) in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to hide their assets. The National Tax Service (NTS) said it has cracked down on 2,416 taxpayers who have hid their income or inherited [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With climate change and environment pollution developing into serious social issues, an increasing number of South Koreans are attempting to educate themselves about the proper methods to separate recyclables as a way to minimize the amount of waste destined for landfills or incinerators. On social media, a ‘praise relay’ [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s imports of South Korean products last year stayed nearly the same as the previous year despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, a report showed Sunday, as the world’s second-largest economy bought more consumer goods like cosmetics. China imported US$173.5 billion worth of goods from South Korea in 2020, only [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has asked U.S. President Joe Biden to overturn a U.S. trade panel’s decision against SK Innovation Co. in a trade secret case over electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Kemp repeated his request to save thousands of jobs in northeast Georgia directly tied to an SK Innovation’s [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — After the bullying accusations against South Korea’s twin volleyball stars Lee Jae-yeong and Lee Da-yeong gained media attention, the so-called ‘school violence me-too’ phenomenon is spreading even to the entertainment industry. The twin sisters are accused of having bullied fellow students when they were in school. School violence issues, [...]