SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Belugas, or white whales, feature a white body, a round forehead, and a cute smiling face. Belugas are known to be highly intelligent, enough to find and return a mobile phone that fell into the water to the owner. Belugas are easily tamed and keep calm even when facing [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean drivers will now be able to use a voice recognition system in their navigation apps to report an animal injury caused by a car accident without having to make a phone call. The Ministry of Interior and Safety and South Chungcheong Province began testing the ‘Roadkill Reporting [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean economy’s dependence on Japan has been on a downward trend since Japan imposed export restrictions against South Korea in July 2019, the country’s leading business lobby group said Sunday. The share of imports from Japan among overall South Korean imports fell from 9.8 percent in Q1 [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The prosecution said Sunday it is providing a number of services to support foreign crime victims going through local criminal procedures. Foreign victims can learn criminal procedures from videos posted by the Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO) on its YouTube channel in five different languages — Chinese, English, Thai, Vietnamese and [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Investment Corp. (KIC), South Korea’s US$157 billion sovereign wealth fund, is seeking to buy commercial properties in Europe and China, the company’s top executive has said, in what could be its latest alternative investments. “We are considering making investments one each in Europe and in China,” KIC Chairman [...]
SEOUL/BUSAN, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering adding Russia to a list of countries requiring stronger quarantine checks as cluster infections on Russian ships have continued to swell, health authorities said Friday. At least 32 sailors on a Russia-flagged fishing vessel docked in the southeastern city of Busan tested positive for the [...]
BORYEONG, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first search and rescue drill using hydrogen-powered unmanned drones took place at sea. The drill was held at a special pier reserved for the Korea Coast Guard at Daecheon Port on the west coast and at sea near Wonsan Island, led by Prof. Lee Guk-jong, former chief [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed an equation to assess the risk of dementia for individuals with Parkinson’s disease, a university said Thursday. A research team led by Lee Phil-hyu and Chung Seok-jong, professors of neurology at Yonsei University College of Medicine, had developed a model and an equation tool [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympics scheduled to be held next year in Japan, Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, unveiled on Thursday a video in English on social media such as YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, warning that the radiation risk still remains high in Japan. The [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. said Thursday that its shipbuilding unit Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. has obtained the green light for its ammonia-propelled ships from Lloyd’s Register, a British quality assurance and risk management company. Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has been aiming to commercialize the ammonia-propelled ships by 2025 [...]