SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent court victory for South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery was confirmed Saturday after Japan decided not to appeal the earlier ruling, sources said. On Nov. 23, the Seoul High Courthad overturned a lower court’s rejection of a damages suit filed by “comfort women” and ordered [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea warned Sunday that a “physical clash and war” have become a matter of time on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of the scrapping of an inter-Korean military tension reduction accord, threatening that South Korea will face “total collapse” if it undertakes any hostile act. A North [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea lashed out at the United States on Saturday after a U.S. space official hinted at possible disabling of the North’s military spy satellite launched last week, saying that it will take it as “a declaration of war” against the regime. A spokesperson of the North’s defense ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Space has emerged as an extended battlefield for the rival Koreas as they have successfully launched their own spy satellites into orbit and are gearing up to send more to better monitor each other amid an intensifying arms race, analysts said Saturday. South Korea’s first homegrown spy satellite was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – For many North Korean defectors in South Korea, arriving here in one piece is one thing, but finding a job to support themselves in the capitalist society is another mission. Lee Hye-young, 39, still remembers the first few months into her job at a company that makes filters for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul High court on Friday ordered the government to reverse its decision to revoke the license of a North Korean defectors’ group for sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets over to the North. The court ruling came after the unification ministry revoked the license of Fighters for a Free North [...]
SEOUL, BUSAN & PARIS, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) –Following Busan’s unsuccessful bid for the 2030 World Expo, Busan National University Professor Kim Yi-tae, an advisor to the Busan Expo Hosting Committee, has claimed that vote buying occurred. Kim made this revelation during a press conference held on the sidelines of the International Expositions Bureau (BIE) [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will bring in an all-time high of 165,000 non-professional migrant workers next year under the Employment Permit System to cope with growing labor shortages hitting many industries, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said Monday. The government will also expand the industries in which the foreign workers [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol accepted the resignations of the chief of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and his two deputies Sunday, effectively sacking the top three officials at the spy agency in the wake of controversy over personnel affairs. Yoon accepted the resignations of NIS Director Kim Kyou-hyun, First [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The government’s website and application used to show mobile identification cards went down Friday, after a major system failure caused nationwide disruptions in public access to state-approved papers last week. The mobile identification card website and app became inaccessible from 1:54 p.m. and its front page displayed a message [...]