SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors with a healthy lifestyle tend to have stronger immunity than younger people engaging in less healthy practices. The Dongnam Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences in Busan revealed the results of a test measuring the immunity level of six cancer patients and 36 ordinary participants for a month. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest logistics company will team up with the police to foster neighborhood safety. CJ Logistics Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has joined hands with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) to educate 100 delivery personnel on traffic safety, crime prevention, and finding missing persons. Traffic specialists [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ Japan-bound travel looks set to slip further as there are no signs of the trade tensions between the two neighbors abating. On July 4, Japan tightened controls on exports of three high-tech materials to South Korea, in apparent retaliation against a series of court rulings here that [...]
JEONJU, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonju residents will have a unique opportunity to participate in a program to modify the public bus routes in the city. The Jeonju Council for Sustainable Development announced that registration is now open to recruit ‘Civil Bus Route Designers’ until August 16 to create more convenient bus routes in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangwon Province is deeply concerned about paying 60 billion won (US$50.7 million) to invest in Chuncheon Legoland, as civic groups are adding pressure on the Provincial Council to reconsider the project. “The Legoland project, ensuing for the last eight years, is what civil society is strongly calling on to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of users has surged due to the recent expansion of electric scooter sharing services, related traffic accidents are also on the rise. The majority of the accidents were found to be caused by the user’s poor adherence to traffic regulations. According to Samsung Fire & Marine [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of noraebang, Korean-style karaoke rooms that have been a mainstay of public leisure for more than 30 years, is on the decline. According to a recent report by the KB Financial Group Research Institute, the number of karaoke rooms in South Korea started to drop in 2011 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will implement a plan that allocates a space for students to create and display their YouTube content or webtoons. The Ministry of Education on Sunday announced a plan to internalize school media education and strengthen related education support for aspiring content creators such as YouTubers and Webtoon writers. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A prestigious private high school in the southwestern city of Jeonju on Friday retained its special status, which guarantees greater autonomy in admissions, financing and curriculum, for another five years despite the government’s efforts to reduce the number of such elite schools blamed for deepening educational inequality. The Education [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to apply stronger measures to control the population of stray cats, which has reached an all-time high and begun to impact local ecosystems. The Ministry of Environment decided to implement new neutering methods and put scarves on cats to limit their hunting capabilities. The ministry will [...]