SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball’s minor league will start using “robot umpires” in August, a league official said Thursday. The official with the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said about 20 games in the Futures League will have the automated ball-strike system in place this season, and it will be used for [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean scientist has succeeded in curing Parkinson’s disease using a patient’s own stem cells for the first time in history. Prof. Kim Kwang-soo of McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and his research team announced Tuesday that they had succeeded in a clinical treatment of transplanting stem cells extracted [...]
SEOUL/DAEJEON, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Three days into the government’s experiment of using quick response (QR) code-based registrations at risky facilities, business owners and visitors have shown mixed responses over the scheme aimed at better tracking and containing the new coronavirus. On Monday, the government launched a weeklong test into QR code entry logs [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Southern District Court sentenced a defendant referred to only as ‘A’ (49) to 14 months in jail with a stay of execution for three years. The defendant was charged after hitting a pedestrian with his electric kickboard in a state of inebriation. While intoxicated, he rode an [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a phase-by-phase opening of the new school year since May 20, a number of changes at schools are coming as a pleasant surprise for students. One of them is coming to school wearing training uniforms. To minimize physical contact amid the raging coronavirus, many schools in their own [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Under new legislation, all commercial aquariums in South Korea will now be subject to government instructions on the minimum size and environment of a standard aquarium tanks. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries reportedly came up with a five-year plan for aquariums that have long operated in legal blind [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this month, foreigners will be able to register their mobile phones and open up bank accounts with a Korean name. The government announced Friday that starting on June 8, foreigners with a Korean name inscribed on their alien registration card will be able to use their Korean name [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. announced Monday that positive results were shown for its treatment for the novel coronavirus in animal testing. The company said its antiviral antibody treatment showed a 100-fold reduction in the viral load of SARS-CoV-2, the virus known to be causing COVID-19, in an [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are purchasing convenience and function-enhancing parts and components when they buy a new car. Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, announced on Saturday that its tuning brand TUIX saw sales quintuple from 16.9 billion won (US$13.7 million) in 2015 to [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hungary awarded 38 South Korean divers and other rescue officials medals of merit for their efforts and service in search operations for Korean and other victims in last year’s boat sinking in Budapest, its embassy in Seoul said Friday. A ceremony was held at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in [...]