SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at Sookmyung Women’s University are strongly opposing the recent decision by school authorities that a transgender female has been admitted to the university. The transgender female, 22, received a sex change operation in Thailand last year and was reassigned a new gender by authorities before being admitted to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s churches and cathedrals were visited by a significant number of members on Sunday despite the coronavirus spread. At a church in Seoul’s Seodaemun District, churchgoers showed up for morning chapel, most of them fully protected with masks. Members of the choir were also seen wearing masks. Volunteers for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s much-awaited economic recovery may again be drawn out in the face of the deadly virus spreading in China and apparently to the furthest corners of the globe, including South Korea, potentially undermining global demand and supply chains for weeks or even months to come, analysts here said [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — With demand for masks surging amid fears over the new coronavirus, the government on Sunday announced plans to punish sellers who disturb the market. In a joint press briefing held by ministers, Food and Drug Safety Minister Lee Eui-kyung said the government is closely monitoring wholesalers and online retailers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecommunication companies said Saturday they will participate in the upcoming mobile technologies trade fair as planned despite growing fears over the spread of the new strain of coronavirus. The three — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they have no [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will conduct intensive tests on automobiles produced by Toyota Motor Corp. after Russian authorities detected high levels of radiation on Toyota car exports to Vladivostok. Whether the recent measure will expand to all Japanese car producers has yet to be confirmed. The Korea Customs Service (KCS) designated [...]
JEJU, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Increasing cases of infection from a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus in China has compelled the provincial government on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju to reconsider its implementation of a visa-free program for foreign visitors, including those from China, provincial officials said Wednesday. The southern resort island is a major [...]
JEONJU, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has selected Jeonju and four other locations as ‘capital cities’ for the tourism industry. Jeonju welcomed the result, confident that the project’s support in building world-class infrastructure for tourism and attracting foreign tourists en masse will boost the economy of the region. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday it will foot the bill for fighting the Wuhan coronavirus in the country and treating infected patients. Under the rules on countermeasures for new infectious diseases, the state will pay for all expenses related to the screening of suspected cases and treatment of those infected, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Danish beer Carlsberg have soared in South Korea, a recent report showed. According to Golden Blue, sales of Carlsberg beer rose 86 percent last year from 2018. Golden Blue, a homegrown whiskey maker that imports and sells Carlsberg beer, previously entered the local market by signing a [...]