SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of people demanding the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol surpassed the 1 million mark Wednesday on the National Assembly’s petition website. The petition, calling on the National Assembly to propose a bill on Yoon’s impeachment, gained a daily average of 100,000 signatures over a period of [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to announce measures to strengthen industrial safety for foreign workers later this month following last week’s deadly fire at a battery plant that claimed 23 lives, including 18 foreigners, the labor minister said Monday. Seventeen Chinese nationals and one from Laos were killed in the fire [...]
GWANGJU, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A national trauma treatment center began operations Monday for victims of state violence in the southwestern city of Gwangju, the site of the bloody crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy uprising. The establishment of the state violence trauma treatment center follows four years of pilot projects conducted since 2020, aimed [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s industry ministry said Friday it will add 243 more items that can potentially be used for military purposes to the list of products regulated for export to Russia and Belarus. The decision raised the number of such items to 1,402, as South Korea has been tightening its [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A memoir by former National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo has sparked political debate with the claim that President Yoon Suk Yeol speculated the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush may have been manipulated. In his memoir revealed Thursday, Kim recounted his private conversation with Yoon during a breakfast prayer meeting, held [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) –On the 74th anniversary of the Korean War, Hong Joon-pyo, the mayor of Daegu and a former conservative presidential candidate, renewed his call for South Korea to develop its own nuclear arsenal to counter North Korea’s nuclear threat. In a Facebook post on June 25, Hong invoked the example of [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday condemned the U.S. sending of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Korean Peninsula, saying that the North is open to taking “overwhelming and fresh” deterrence measures against such a provocative act. North Korean Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang-il issued a statement slamming the arrival of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea needs to consider various options to tackle North Korea’s nuclear issue, including Seoul’s arming itself with its own nuclear weapons, a state-run think tank said in a report Sunday, amid heightened concerns raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Pyongyang. The Institute for National Security Strategy [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Suffering from the prolonged walkout by junior doctors and the subsequent disruptions to the health care system, angry patients will hold a rally on an unprecedented scale next month, officials said Friday. An association of patients’ groups said it is organizing a protest, together with other patients’ organizations, in [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Thursday it will reconsider its stance on arms supply to Ukraine after North Korea and Russia signed a treaty that involves a mutual pledge to provide immediate military assistance if one of them is attacked. National Security Advisor Chang Ho-jin also expressed regret over [...]