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SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Navy conscripts report markedly higher levels of insomnia and depression than their counterparts in other branches, according to a Defense Ministry mental-health survey that lawmakers say underscores the urgent need for branch-specific interventions. The survey — conducted jointly by the ministry, the Armed Forces Medical Command and Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry announced Monday that it has expanded the number of countries whose nationals can use automated immigration checks when entering Incheon International Airport, increasing the list from four to 18. The latest measure allows travelers from 14 additional countries, comprising the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Finland, Portugal, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A pair of beloved characters from Netflix’s hit Korean animation K-Pop Demon Hunters soared above Manhattan on Thursday morning, marking one of the most prominent international spotlights yet for the breakout franchise. During the 99th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — an annual tradition since 1924 and one of the most [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean parliamentary committee on Friday, November 28, approved a landmark bill aimed at curbing the rampant black market for concert and sports tickets by empowering authorities to levy fines up to 50 times the ticket’s illegal resale price. The National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee passed sweeping [...]
CHUNCHEON, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Public pressure for mandatory closed-circuit cameras in kindergarten classrooms is mounting in South Korea following a suspected child-abuse case in Chuncheon, but education authorities signaled caution on imposing sweeping surveillance requirements. Shin Gyeong-ho, superintendent of the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Office of Education, said Wednesday that the installation of CCTV [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will issue its first government-backed ethics guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence on university campuses, amid a surge in cheating cases involving AI tools such as ChatGPT. According to the office of Kim Yong-tae, an opposition lawmaker who sits on the National Assembly’s Education Committee, the [...]
PARIS, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany has voiced deep concern over Seoul’s high-rise development plan near Seoul’s Jongmyo Shrine when he met with Huh Min, director of the Korea Heritage Service (KHS), Huh said. “He brought up the issue and expressed deep concern over the plan,” Huh said Wednesday while briefing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Google will roll out a lower-priced version of YouTube Premium in South Korea that excludes its music-streaming service, the country’s antitrust regulator said Thursday, following a months-long probe into whether the company’s subscription bundling violated fair-trade rules. The launch is part of a corrective plan Google submitted under a consent-decision [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — What once felt like the plot of a workplace drama is increasingly echoing real life for many middle-aged South Koreans. In the popular series The Dream Life of Mr.Kim (the story of manager Kim working at a large company in Seoul), a seemingly secure executive finds himself abruptly sidelined and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid persistent air pollution across South Korea, a new study has found that prolonged exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Seoul significantly increases deaths from ischemic heart disease — including heart attacks — particularly among older adults. According to research released Thursday by Seoul National University Hospital’s public health [...]