SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean television announcer couple Choi Dong-seok and Park Ji-yoon were recently involved in a horrible car accident when the vehicle they were driving collided with a truck driving the wrong way on the highway. Despite the serious collision, Choi, Park and their children all escaped serious injury, raising [...]
SEJONG, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has recorded no “meaningful” excess mortality during the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Wednesday. A total of 3,213 more people than usual have died in South Korea since January, according to the data released by Statistics Korea. However, Statistics Korea said there has been no “meaningful excess [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday started the local supply of a newly developed hydrogen fuel-cell bus in line with its efforts to increase the number of automobiles running on the environment-friendly resource in more areas. One of the buses, whose mass production began this month, was delivered to a bus [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Goh Dong-wan, a 34-year-old office worker based in Seoul, had a plan to go to Europe for his honeymoon after his wedding on April 11. But the once-in-a-lifetime trip, which he prepared last year, was scrapped as the novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted overseas flights and prompted European countries [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s transport ministry said Tuesday it has recently ordered a probe into Tesla Motors Inc.’s Model 3 for possible problems with parts. The Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute (KATRI) of the Korea Transportation Safety Authority is looking into whether the Model 3′s Autopilot driver-assist feature has any [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Energy Corp., an energy solutions affiliate of Hanwha Group, said Tuesday it has completed the construction of a hydrogen fuel cell power plant, the first of its kind and the largest in the world to be powered solely by hydrogen that is extracted as a byproduct from petrochemical [...]
SEJONG, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — About 67 percent of South Korean senior citizens want to keep working until the age of 73 on average, data showed Tuesday. The data from Statistics Korea showed that 9.62 million, or 67.4 percent, of the 14.27 million South Koreans aged between 55 and 79 said they want to [...]
ROME, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A bimonthly magazine dedicated to all things related to K-pop giant BTS has been launched in Italy, in a reflection of the band’s growing popularity, according to the publisher Monday. Italian publishing house Sprea S.p.A launched the magazine, BTS, last month, with the full-color launch edition consisting of some [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, announced on Monday that it will hold the First Open Innovation Forum as part of efforts to bring innovative values to consumers through collaboration with other industries. Open innovation refers to the pursuit of innovation through active cooperation [...]
BEIJING/SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — China has agreed to resume visa issuance for South Korean students, employees hired to work in the country and those with residence permits, Seoul’s top envoy in Beijing said Monday. Ambassador Jang Ha-sung told reporters that the two countries have recently agreed on visa issuance for the three groups: [...]