SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday said it will expand its lineup of customizable home appliances that allow consumers to better reflect their lifestyles as the South Korean tech giant aims to boost sales amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend. Samsung said its concept of BESPOKE will be applied to all [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Right-wing extremists in Japan are stepping up to protect J. Mark Ramseyer, a Japanese legal studies professor at Harvard University who has claimed that sex slaves held captive by the Japanese military during World War II were ‘contractual prostitutes’. Extremists are attempting to create a sentiment against calls to [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT announced Sunday that it will provide high-performance computing resources to South Korean businesses and agencies in need of artificial intelligence (AI) development. High-performance computing resources are capable of processing large amounts of data at high speeds, accelerating the process of AI development. Procuring [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry announced Monday a five-year blueprint to better manage the country’s fishery resources, as climate change and overfishing have been challenging the sustainability of the local fisheries industry. Under the plan, the combined amount of fishery resources in the country’s coastal lines will rise to 4 [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a nationwide inspection of manufacturing workplaces with foreign employees to check if they are properly following the anti-virus guidelines amid a series of cluster infections reported at such facilities, officials said Sunday. On Thursday, the Ministry of Employment and Labor began the inspection on some [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has recommended the state telecommunications regulator come up with measures to protect children’s rights from being violated by applications that allow parents to control their children’s mobile activities. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) last week dismissed two teenage plaintiffs’ petitions filed [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government asked the public Saturday to use their encrypted personal numbers, instead of phone numbers, to protect privacy when they have to write down entry logs at widely used places like restaurants and cafes as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Last month, the government [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The road lining Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul was partially closed Saturday to begin construction on a major park. Sejong-daero, which runs up and down the east and west sides of the square, was closed off on the west and expanded on the east to allow traffic to move [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A salt lake in Argentina previously purchased by South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO is returning large profits after the lake turned out to contains more lithium reserves than initially calculated, and the price of lithium jumped. The Salar del Hombre Muerto salt lake in northern Argentina which POSCO bought [...]
CHUNCHEON, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has succeeded in the world’s first artificial incubation of sea ravens, four years after studies began in 2017. The Gangwon Fisheries Research Institute announced that it had succeeded in artificial incubation of some 200,000 sea ravens in January, after capturing a female sea raven in October of [...]