SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government is preparing to introduce a special law aimed at tightening safety rules at construction sites and imposing harsher penalties for fatal accidents, the country’s land minister said Friday, as the sector continues to grapple with a steady rise in deadly workplace incidents. Land Minister Kim Yun-duk [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s newly created media regulator said Friday it will open a transparency center next year to confront the spread of online disinformation, signaling an aggressive shift in how the government intends to police digital content. The announcement came as the Korea Media Communications Commission (KMCC) delivered its first [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A proposal that would grant the South Korean government authority over civilian access to the Demilitarized Zone — long controlled by the United Nations Command — is facing resistance from key ministries in Seoul and from the U.S.-led command itself. Lawmakers from the governing Democratic Party introduced the bill [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said Friday the government will seek to introduce punitive fines on businesses with repeated data breaches amid growing concern over personal information security. Bae made the remark during the Ministry of Science and ICT’s policy briefing to President Lee Jae Myung in the central city [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A large majority of South Koreans believe that maintaining peaceful coexistence with North Korea is more important than achieving reunification, according to a government survey released Thursday. The Unification Ministry’s poll found that 79.4 percent of respondents agreed that “peaceful coexistence without war is more important than reunification,” reflecting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — As demographic decline accelerates across South Korea, a new national survey suggests that a lack of appealing jobs is the single most important reason people are leaving regional areas — and choosing not to raise children there. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) released the findings Thursday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will introduce new regulations to curb the rapid spread of artificial intelligence–generated false and exaggerated advertising, including a mandatory labeling system for AI-produced content and punitive damages for malicious misinformation, government officials said Wednesday. The package was approved at a national policy coordination meeting chaired by Prime Minister [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (National AI Strategy Committee) has wrapped up a series of structured deliberation sessions designed to assess how artificial intelligence will reshape professional roles and employment, the committee said Tuesday. The talks, held between late October and early December, brought together practitioners [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to gradually open access to its national integrated bio big data system beginning in the second half of next year, as part of a broader push to accelerate the use of medical and public health data across research and clinical fields, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog has launched a digital forensics center to professionally collect, analyze and manage electronic evidence from personal data breaches, amid a rapid increase in hacking-related incidents across the country. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) held an opening ceremony for the Digital Forensic Center at the [...]