SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Education authorities announced Thursday that teachers in Seoul can request protection if they feel threatened by stalkers or blackmail. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that it will begin offering Teacher Safety Insurance that expands the coverage of teacher’s insurance to include damages caused by students and their [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus pandemic triggered renewed controversy about whether to allow telemedicine services in South Korea, as a doctors’ lobby group warned of “extreme” resistance against telemedicine. Telemedicine is illegal in South Korea, but the nation has allowed doctors to treat coronavirus patients who have mild symptoms via telephone since [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean confectionery company Orion Corp. said Thursday it plans to strengthen its market presence with a reasonably priced snack line in China and Vietnam following its launch in South Korea. The reasonably priced snack line will offer products that focus on “cost-effectiveness” by setting prices based on convenience [...]
SEJONG/SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it will carry out a test run of hydrogen fuel-cell electric commercial vehicles as it moves to promote the resource as one of the main energy sources for Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. The government has signed two separate memoranda of understanding with Hyundai Motor Co. and [...]
SEJONG, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Thursday it has again rejected voluntary corrective measures by Apple Inc.’s Korean unit over its alleged violation of competition law. Apple Korea is suspected of having required Korean mobile phone carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — to pay [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a growing social atmosphere that values spending time alone instead of in groups, some office workers have been found to live a voluntary “unsocial” life at work as physical distancing measures have become a part of everyday life. According to a survey of 1,314 office workers by online [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to push for a mandatory “Green Remodeling” of public buildings that increases energy performance to a certain minimum level or higher. Land Minister Kim Hyun-mee visited an on-site daycare center at the state-run Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-water) headquarters in Daejeon Wednesday, an excellent example [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Random chat applications that don’t identify the user and save chat histories will be banned from being installed on teenagers’ smartphones in South Korea, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said it is planning to designate applications that provide free online chat services among [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors continued to net sell South Korean stocks in April amid the coronavirus pandemic but boosted their purchase of local bonds, central bank data showed Wednesday. Foreigners net sold US$4.32 billion worth of local shares in the month, according to the data from the Bank of Korea (BOK). [...]
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday sent 500,000 face masks to help Korean War veterans in the United States fight COVID-19, the South Korean Embassy here said. The masks arrived aboard a South Korean Air Force aircraft at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and officials from both sides were present to receive [...]