SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions, the number of foreign arrivals in South Korea again nose-dived nearly 98 percent in May, reaching slightly over 30,000, official data showed Saturday. According to the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), 30,861 foreigners visited South Korea in May, down 97.9 percent from the same month [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army decided not to allow a former noncommissioned officer, who was forcibly discharged after sex reassignment surgery, to return to the military, officials said Friday. Byun Hee-soo, 22, filed the petition with the Army in February after a military committee ruled the previous month, based on a medical [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — When Shin Han-yong crossed the inter-Korean border into the North Korean city of Kaesong in 2018, he thought the opening of an inter-Korean liaison office could eventually lead to the resumption of a joint factory park. The liaison office in the western border city was a follow-up on an [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Advertisement boards installed at subway stations in Seoul will be replaced with new ones that can be folded into emergency doors. Seoul Metro plans to remove 4,258 stationary safety doors currently in place in 132 subway stations on subway lines 1-8 and 1,987 advertisement boards attached on top of [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Going forward, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technology will be used in South Korea to select individuals subject to tax audits, the tax agency said Thursday. The National Tax Service (NTS) announced that it will trial a big data analysis system for sorting out borrowed-name bank accounts this [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications firm, has revealed details of a “reverse mentor” program in which new employees born in the 1990s serve as mentors for high-ranking executives. The goal is for the new employees to share knowhow on how to better communicate with the so-called [...]
SUWON, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Thursday closed the country’s longest-standing cold case involving a series of brutal rapes and murders that began more than three decades ago. Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency concluded in a briefing that Lee Chun-jae killed 14 women, most of them rape-murder cases, and raped nine others, wrapping [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Chinese tourists to South Korea fell by more than 30 percent in the 2017-2020 period from three years earlier due to a bilateral diplomatic row, data showed Thursday. The monthly average number of Chinese tourists in South Korea reached 380,000 during the three-year period starting in [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Subways running across South Korea’s capital will get contactless gates that will allow passengers to pass through without directly tagging their cards, the Seoul metropolitan government said Thursday. The city’s subway operator plans to inject 2.9 billion won (US$2.4 million) to set up 556 “tagless gates” at subway stations [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Returning last month from seven weeks of compulsory working from home due to the pandemic, Kim Min-ju, a 41-year-old office worker, was at a loss to find a safe place to have lunch. Back to her office life in the busy business district of Gwanghwamun in central Seoul, she [...]