SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Liverpool FC is being criticized for re-posting an image of the Japanese Rising Sun Flag on its website a day after apologizing to South Korean fans for uploading a video that shows the Japanese symbol of aggression often equated to the Nazi swastika. Liverpool’s Japanese social media account posted [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. said Saturday it plans to set up a joint venture to build engines with Saudi Aramco in March next year in the latest move to strengthen their cooperation. The JV will break ground for the plant in the King Salman International Complex for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese telecommunications behemoth Huawei Technologies Co. on Friday vowed to beef up its business in South Korea by increasing the purchase of parts for its network equipment and smartphones amid continued U.S. sanctions. Karl Song Kai, head of Huawei’s global media and communications, said Huawei also plans to increase [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery Hero, a Germany-based online delivery service provider, said Thursday that it has developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology that screens out fake reviews. The technology developed by Delivery Hero Korea, which runs the delivery apps Yogiyo and Baedaltong, is a deep learning-based automatic classification AI process model that filters [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of animals have died of natural causes at animal shelters across the country. A total of 102,915 animals died of natural causes at local government-run abandoned animal shelters across the country between 2015 and 2018, according to findings by the Korean Animal Welfare Association (KAWA). The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to support small-lot-size production of automobiles and boost the car tuning industry. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Thursday that it has come up with a follow-up plan for the Car Tuning Industry Promotion Plan revealed in August. The follow-up plan will amend [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at SsangYong Motor Co., the South Korean unit of Indian carmaker Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Thursday accepted a cut in bonuses and other cost-saving measures proposed by the company amid declining sales. SsangYong Motor workers have agreed to the company’s proposals that require them to return some of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas Korean adoptees will find it easier to search for their biological parents or family beginning next year as they will be able to have their genes collected and registered with South Korean diplomatic missions, officials here said Thursday. According to the National Police Agency (NPA) and the foreign [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A college bulletin board posted a job recruitment notice that suggested a good salary and comfortable employment conditions. However, it contained an ingenious twist. On Tuesday, a notice was posted on the Daegu Catholic University bulletin board and social media sites such as Facebook that offered a salary of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of low-income or unemployed individuals are resorting to suicide, sending a warning signal to the current safety net system offered by the government to protect socially vulnerable groups. The Citizens’ Reunion for Life Respect, a civic group, reported that 3,390 people committed suicide last year due [...]