SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s restrictions on exports to South Korea has sharply cut into its favorability rating among the South Korean people, a poll by Gallup Korea showed Friday. In the survey of 1,005 Korean adults conducted nationwide from Tuesday to Thursday, only 12 percent said they have a favorable view of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT has received a special regulatory exemption to test run an app-based voluntary taxi-sharing service. Kornatus, a South Korean taxi-sharing service provider, will test run an application app that hails taxis with other passengers who are going to a similar destination. Between 10 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An animal rights advocacy group is calling on the deliberation and enactment of a bill that bans the arbitrary slaughtering of animals. The Animal Liberation Wave (ALW) and Rep. Pyo Chang-won of the ruling Democratic Party held a press conference in Seoul on Thursday, calling for legislation “to ban [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co. a wholly owned subsidiary of the country’s leading oil refiner SK Innovation Co., announced on Thursday that it will begin a new project to supply eco-friendly energy at its gas stations and My Truck House, a service station for cargo trucks. For the new project, SK [...]
INCHEON, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean version of Silicon Valley will be created in Incheon. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Thursday that Tomorrow City complex in Incheon’s Songdo District, has been selected as the result of a public offering by local governments nationwide. To this end, the “2019 Start-up Park Creation [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled that a recently divorced female immigrant can extend her visa status as a married immigrant by proving that the Korean ex-husband was ‘mainly responsible’ for the divorce. The court overruled a previous decision on a case filed by a Vietnamese woman against Seoul Southern Immigration [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team led by Prof. Ko Sung-ahn at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, jointly with Purdue University and Arizona State University, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that predicts traffic conditions in the next 5 to 15 minutes. Using this system will allow navigation programs [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The generation who grew up watching Disney animations in the 1990s, those in their late 40s and middle-aged, are once again falling in love with Disney magic. They are charmed by Disney as they can recall old memories and share those precious memories with their children. Disney content is [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A husband who indiscriminately assaulted his Vietnamese wife in front of his young child for her poor Korean is causing a public uproar. In the midst of the upheaval, statistics show that 4 out of every 10 married migrant women are suffering from domestic violence such as the recent [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea was the world’s No. 2 heated tobacco market last year, and its growth will gather pace down the road, an industry tracker said Tuesday. The size of South Korea’s heat-not-burn electronic cigarette market reached US$1.67 billion last year, rising sharply from $453 million tallied in 2017, according [...]