SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean kindergartens and elementary schools have started to use robots for education. Voice of Korea, Pyongyang’s state-run radio station, posted a video on its official website on Thursday in which students were seen speaking to a robot while looking up at the robot’s ‘face’, or scanning cards with the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans affairs ministry published a new edition of its book on the history of the international medical assistance rendered to South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War to add the long-forgotten contribution of Germany, officials said Sunday. U.N. “Sending States” had long been defined as 21 countries — [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the long-awaited launch of the public vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in South Korea on Friday, many citizens and medical workers nationwide went through mixed feelings of relief, hope and cautious optimism and revealed expectations for an imminent end of the pandemic. About 13 months after its first confirmed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Research from a Seoul-based civic group claimed that the bioenergy industry – which has been growing at a rapid pace backed by policy support – is actually not as clean as its proponents would have you believe, with its raw material import sources creating human rights and environment problems. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a plan to establish a national cancer data library by collecting a comprehensive range of medical information on domestic cancer patients, including records of their medical treatment and examination before being diagnosed with cancer and their prognosis after being diagnosed with cancer. The national cancer data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases fell slightly below 400 on Thursday, a day ahead of the country’s first rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, as sporadic cluster infections continued to pop up across the country. The country reported 396 more virus cases, including 369 local infections, raising the total caseload [...]
SHINAN, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinan, a southwestern county composed of about 1,000 islands, on Thursday announced a decision to cancel its nationally famous spring tulip festival, in-person as well as online, for the second year in a row due to coronavirus fears. The South Jeolla Province county, about 390 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery makers are facing uncertainty over their businesses on safety issues and legal disputes amid an intensifying competition for the booming market as automakers rush to go all electric. Three manufacturers — LG Energy Solution Ltd., Samsung SDI Co. and SK Innovation Co. — are well-positioned suppliers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it plans to suspend the operations of more coal-powered plants during spring time in line with its efforts to cut the emissions of fine dust. Under the plan, the country plans to halt the operation of 19 to 28 coal plants in March depending on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A substantial number of South Korean elementary, middle and high school students no longer think that marriage is an obligation. ChildFund Korea, a Seoul-based charity organization for children with mental and physical disabilities, conducted a survey of 708 elementary, middle and high school students. Only 16.7 percent of the [...]