SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean middle and high school students have published an English fairytale book about an extinct sea lion as part of efforts to promote South Korean sovereignty over the easternmost Dokdo Islets. The students of Cheongshim International Academy in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province translated a fairytale that [...]
CHONAN, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Shutter-type screen doors developed in South Korea will be installed in Bulgaria. The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) announced on Tuesday that it had signed a deal with Bulgaria’s Metropolitan, the municipality-owned company operating the underground railway system in Sofia, to export the shutter-type screen door technology that [...]
BERLIN, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of people staged a rally in Berlin on Tuesday to protest a district office’s order to remove a statue in the German capital symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Some 300 activists and citizens gathered near the statue, formally called “The Statue of Peace,” in Berlin’s Mitte [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A cooperative organized by a group of university students is contributing to addressing a social conundrum – the creation of jobs for visually impaired persons. According to the Korea Employment Agency for Persons With Disabilities, the employment rate of the nation’s visually impaired persons stood at 42.6 percent last [...]
JEJU, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Province is preparing for a new era of eco-friendly vehicles by announcing plans to ban the registration of all internal combustion engine vehicles in the southern resort island by 2030. Jeju, along with the Jeju Provincial Council, announced Monday a New Deal Plan for Jeju that includes directives [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ card payments to Netflix reached a fresh high of 46.2 billion won (US$40.2 million) last month, data showed Tuesday, a nearly twofold jump from a year earlier. An estimated 3.36 million people here spent the record amount in September on the popular video streaming platform, according to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The treatment cost for pedestrians injured due to the fault of electric kickboard users will be paid in advance by the car insurance of the pedestrians or their families. The Financial Supervisory Service is known to have issued a notice of amendment last month stating that the definition of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus has proven to be a longer-than-expected obstacle that has pushed the global music industry out of its comfort zone and into uncharted land where the heat and energy of live gigs no longer exist. But it couldn’t stop BTS and its dedicated fan base ARMY from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — This summer, Jeong Hong-woo, a 33-year-old architect, opted for a Mercedes-Benz sedan as his first car, an unexpected choice for him as he had long considered the brand as suited to successful middle-aged men. “Many of my colleagues and friends have chosen foreign brands recently, and I came to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With COVID-19 routing the global shipbuilding industry, shipbuilding giant group Hyundai Heavy Industries Group has been aggressively building up its business portfolio via mergers and business tieups to sharpen its competitive edge. The shipbuilding giant has been going ahead with the acquisition of its smaller local rival Daewoo Shipbuilding [...]