SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – On Disability Day, over 2,000 people from 140 organizations, including the National Federation for the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD), gathered near the presidential office in Seoul to demand the elimination of discrimination and hatred against people with disabilities. They called for a budget for people with disabilities for [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) –Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) organized a surprise subway-riding protest at Seoul’s Myeongdong Station on the 43rd Day of Persons with Disabilities, leading to a 15-minute disruption in train services. The group demanded an increased budget for disabled people and their mobility rights. SADD has previously staged similar protests at [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Growing concerns are being raised over the Japanese government’s apparent “regression in historical awareness.” This issue was highlighted once again with the approval of elementary school textbooks that contain deteriorated descriptions of forced labor and Dokdo, which may pose a significant obstacle to future Korea-Japan relations. Another issue that [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With the exposé of foreigners living in harsh environments following news reports of various incidents, local governments and authorities are stepping up to come up with preventive measures. Last Monday, four young Nigerian siblings were killed in a fire that engulfed a three-story residential building in Ansan, south of [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized a decision not to punish an Iranian national charged with obtaining a visa based on a fake document, citing an international refugee convention prohibiting the punishment of refugees for illegal entry. The Iranian applied for refugee status in South Korea in March 2016 after [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has co-sponsored a U.N. human rights council draft resolution on North Korea’s gross rights violations for the first time in five years, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Seoul has participated as a co-sponsor in the draft resolution to be adopted at the 52nd regular session of the [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice plans to expand job opportunities for single-parent foreigners who are raising extramarital children with Korean citizenship. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced on Monday that the justice ministry partially accepted the recommendation it presented to improve the status of sojourn for the [...]
NAMYANGJU, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — On Saturday morning, a prayer service was held at Bongsunsa Temple in Namyangju, for a Thai worker who tragically died after working for 10 years at a pig farm in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province. The solemn one-and-a-half-hour ceremony was attended by the worker’s wife, the family of the farmer who [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was once again labeled one of the worst countries in terms of freedom, a recent report by a U.S.-funded freedom watchdog showed Friday. In an annual Freedom House report titled “Freedom in the World 2023,” the North received a combined freedom score of 3 out of 100 [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 36 percent of working women have experienced unwelcome comments on their physical appearance at the workplace, a survey showed Tuesday, indicating women are more frequently exposed to gender-based workplace violence than men. In the survey released by the pro-labor civic group Gabjil 119, 23.1 percent of respondents, [...]