SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Seongdong District plans to develop anti-smoking policies based on big data analysis of complaints related to secondhand smoke and punitive fines to generate a smart, smoking-free environment. The district collected data on complaints related to passive smoking, fines, outdoor non-smoking zones, traffic and educational facilities, and the floating [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemicals company, said Tuesday it has acquired a Turkish television assembly factory in Poland for US$31.4 million to expand its plant for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. LG Chem signed the deal with Turkish electronics and appliance maker Vestel last month, a company official [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — While most universities have decided to postpone the start of the school year to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, 8 out of 10 college students think that tuition fees should be partially refunded, according to a survey. The National University Student Council Network, a network of 27 [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a solid recovery a month ago, uncertainty is mounting over South Korea’s semiconductor exports in March due to the global spread of the new coronavirus. The deadly coronavirus outbreak is spreading rapidly in South Korea, Japan, Iran and Europe, dampening both business and consumer sentiment as well as [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities across the country are pushing to help the city of Daegu as it struggles to acquire enough hospital beds for coronavirus patients. “We will accept patients from Daegu with mild coronavirus infections to be treated at the Bitgoeul Hospital and Chonnam Gwangju Second Geriatric Hospital both operated [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More “drive-through” facilities to test for the novel coronavirus were set up across South Korea on Monday as the country’s health authorities strive to provide easier and quicker ways to test the virus and contain its further spread. The country reported 599 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, introduced Sunday the types of criminal acts that often occur in subway stations, on platforms and trains and regulations concerning punishment for these offenses. If a subway passenger spreads false information, including declaring on the subway that one is the novel [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Sunday it has formed an international alliance with nine telecommunication firms to develop 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technologies and services. SK Telecom said Telecom Edge Cloud TF was established with nine other companies at a GSMA meeting in London [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More universities in Seoul are seeking to replace in-person classes with online lectures due to fears over coronavirus infection. South Korean universities have postponed the start of the spring semester, scheduled for next Monday, by two weeks under the recommendation of the Ministry of Education. With the COVID-19 crisis [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Education authorities of South Korea and China agreed to advise their students against returning to school in the other country as part of their cooperation to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Seoul officials said Friday. The move comes as the spread of the virus is showing little [...]