SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A man in his 50s who worked as an airline flight attendant for 25 years and succumbed to stomach cancer has now been officially recognized as the victim of an industrial accident caused by cosmic radiation. Previously, cosmic radiation-related accidents among flight attendants had primarily been associated with blood cancers [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Inmates once held at prisons and detention centers nationwide have successfully obtained compensation after filing a lawsuit against the government. They alleged that overcrowding in these facilities led to both mental and physical suffering. The court has awarded damages to 47 inmates, with individual payouts ranging from 50,000 won to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of nine former officials of the Korea Coast Guard, who were all charged with failing to carry out their duty in the rescue operation for the sinking of the Sewol ferry in 2014. The top court said there was no [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Cabinet on Monday proposed a bill introducing life sentences without the possibility of parole, a response to a series of heinous crimes in South Korea, such as recent back-to-back stabbing rampages. The revision to the Criminal Act was approved in a Cabinet meeting and will be submitted to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The financial regulator said Thursday it has sent Kakao Corp., its entertainment subsidiary and three senior executives to prosecutors over alleged stock price manipulation in connection with a takeover bid. Kim Beom-su, founder of the social media giant Kakao, was not included in the list, according to the Financial [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Surpeme Court ruled Thursday that a 14th-century Korean Buddhist statue, which had been taken to Japan but was brought back to Korea by thieves in 2012, should be returned to Japan, upholding a lower court’s decision. The decision centers on a 50.5-centimeter-tall Buddhist statue from the Goryeo Dynasty [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of drugs seized before being smuggled into South Korea jumped 30 percent on-year during the first nine months of 2023, the customs agency said Tuesday. The number of smuggling attempts fell 11 percent to 501 cases during the cited period, but the average volume involved in each [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A local businessman has been apprehended for assisting the operation of a North Korean restaurant in a Southeast Asian country and communicating closely with a North Korean spy stationed there, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) said Wednesday. The 52-year-old businessman, who runs an IT program company in South Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The share of gifted properties in the housing transaction market continues to decline. According to housing transaction statistics compiled by the Korea Real Estate Board on Sunday, the nationwide share of gifted properties in housing transactions was 6.8 percent in August, the lowest since June 2020 when the figure was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – About 65 percent of industrial technology that got leaked overseas ended up in China. The National Police Agency recently shared data with Representative Cho Eun-hee, a member of the National Assembly’s Administrative Affairs and Security Committee. They reported that there were 78 cases of industrial technology leaks discovered by [...]