SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of four former National Intelligence Service investigators accused of illegally recording private conversations during a domestic surveillance operation nearly a decade ago. The court affirmed a lower ruling last month that cleared the men of violating the country’s telecommunications privacy law, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea this weekend begins a solemn experiment in shared remembrance. For the first time, the government and the families of those lost in the Itaewon disaster will stand together in public mourning, three years after a crowd crush in a narrow Halloween alley took 159 lives and scarred [...]
JEJU, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A former high school teacher in Jeju has had his fine doubled on appeal after being convicted of making sexually inappropriate remarks to students during class. The Jeju District Court’s Criminal Division 2, presided over by Judge Oh Chang-hoon, on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling and imposed a fine [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23(Korea Bizwire) — A modest tray of white rice, kimchi stew with tuna, bulgogi, stir-fried potatoes, dried seaweed, cherry tomatoes, and a banana might not seem revolutionary. Yet in South Korea’s evolving disaster management system, this humble combination marks a quiet but meaningful shift. The Korean Red Cross, in partnership with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 years after being forcibly sent to the notorious Samcheong Reeducation Camp under the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan, a victim has won a rare court-ordered compensation from the South Korean government. The Seoul Central District Court recently ruled that the state must pay 95 million won (about [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Dual-income couples are more likely to consider having children when housework and earning power are shared equally between partners, a new study has found. According to research published by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, women’s willingness to have children rises significantly when household chores are evenly [...]
DAEGU, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent killing of a South Korean college student from Yecheon, North Gyeongsang Province, in Cambodia has shed new light on how young Koreans are being lured overseas by criminal networks with false promises of easy money, court records show. A Daegu District Court ruling issued in May detailed the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea pushes for wider adoption of Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) to prevent fatigue-related traffic accidents, truck and bus drivers are voicing growing unease over privacy intrusions and cost burdens. While most drivers and operators acknowledge the need for safer roads, many fear that DMS — which tracks [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday apologized for the suffering experienced by overseas adoptees in the past and vowed stronger efforts to protect their rights. Lee issued the message on Facebook a day after South Korea formally became a contracting party to the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, completing [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With just a week left before a deadline to dismantle a comfort woman statue in Berlin, a Korean civic group has filed an injunction against the local district office, seeking to preserve the memorial that has become a focal point of historical and diplomatic tensions. The Korea Verband, a [...]