SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is about to set up a national organization to address one of its most pressing issues that is considered new but has been around for hundreds or thousands of years — dust coming from China. South Korea is seeing a clear increase in both the density and [...]
DAEJEON, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are concerned over the problem that solar panels are being installed in areas that are ten times the size of forests being created to reduce fine dust. Rep. Kim Tae-heum, a member of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, revealed that a total of 5,553 projects have been [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent crash of a Russian cargo ship into Busan’s Gwangan Bridge has legislators in Busan City calling for stricter penal measures for ‘sailing under the influence.’ Busan Nam District’s Rep. Park Jae-ho, a member of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), has proposed a new bill that amends relevant [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An association of foreign news media reporters based in Seoul has expressed “grave concern” after the ruling Democratic Party criticized a Bloomberg News reporter over a story portraying President Moon Jae-in as “top spokesman” of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The article, published in September last year, drew fresh [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Rival parties are speeding up deliberation on various bills on fighting fine dust pollution, with a goal of passing at least seven of them in a plenary session of the National Assembly this week, officials said Monday. The nation’s three biggest parties — the ruling Democratic Party, the main [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of activists claiming to support feminism held a press conference in front of the National Assembly on Thursday, to argue for the need of a feminism party for the first time in Asia. “Of the 300 lawmakers in the National Assembly, only 51 are female, which accounts [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top diplomat said Thursday that there is a link between China and the worsening air pollution in South Korea, which officials here describe as tantamount to a disaster. “It’s true that there’s a cause (of fine dust) stemming from China,” Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told reporters as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint government-private committee’s recent proposal to dismantle three weirs on two of the nation’s four major rivers has sparked a wave of protests from local governments, farmers and conservative opposition politicians. Last Friday, the Four Rivers Survey and Evaluation Planning Committee established by the Ministry of Environment and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A former chief justice of the Supreme Court was indicted Monday on more than 40 counts relating to an alleged massive abuse of judicial power under his leadership. The indictment of Yang Sung-tae comes almost three weeks after the court approved a warrant to place him under pre-indictment detention. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a survey conducted by Japan Press Research Institute (JPRI), a public-interest incorporated foundation in Japan, four out of five South Koreans do not trust Japan. The JPRI released the results of its survey of 1,000 people in each of six countries including the U.S., Britain, France, China, [...]