SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The military has recently taken down more than 1,300 surveillance cameras installed at various bases, including those near the border with North Korea, after discovering they were Chinese-made equipment, a military official said Friday. In late July, military and intelligence authorities found out the surveillance cameras supplied by a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) announced on September 11 that La Niña conditions are likely to develop this fall, following the dissipation of El Niño last May. According to the KMA’s analysis of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction models, sea surface temperatures in the monitored Pacific regions are gradually decreasing. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for increasing the number of centrifuges for uranium enrichment in order to increase its nuclear weapons for self-defense, the state media said Friday. Kim made the call during a visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute and the “production base of weapon-grade nuclear [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers of Renault Korea Motors Co., the South Korean unit of French auto group Renault S.A., began a full-scale strike Friday, as little progress was made in wage talks, company officials said. The union of Renault Korea has been on a partial strike since Tuesday over the wage [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A new enforcement decree will go into effect next week, permitting firms to collect personal information necessary for service provision without users’ consent, officials said Thursday. The Personal Information Protection Commission said a new enforcement decree on personal data protection will take effect starting Sunday. Currently, online businesses are [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will accelerate efforts to verify the lists received from Japan of Korean passengers killed in a controversial 1945 sinking of a Japanese vessel, to help with victims’ compensation, a Seoul official said Thursday. Last week, Japan gave South Korea 19 cases out of some 70 documents related [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bid to boost employee morale and bridge generational gaps, several South Korean companies are turning to an unlikely source: e-sports tournaments. These in-house gaming competitions are becoming increasingly popular as a means to promote teamwork and create a more relaxed corporate culture. Hyundai Wia, a leading automotive parts [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Thursday strongly denounced a “blacklist” of emergency room doctors drawn up to name and shame those not participating in the walkout by junior doctors, vowing to take stern action against those responsible. The list contains personal information and malicious comments about emergency room physicians [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will provide Vietnam with US$2 million in humanitarian assistance to help cope with the aftermath of a strong typhoon that killed more than 150 people, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The government hopes that the provision will help with the recovery efforts and help the affected residents [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The family of the late Kim Jung-ju, founder of the gaming giant Nexon, has completed the payment of their inheritance tax, estimated at over 5 trillion won, drawing attention to its potential impact on South Korea’s tax revenue. However, the actual cash contribution to the national coffers is expected to [...]