SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba agreed to deal with geopolitical crises under the framework of trilateral cooperation with the United States in their first phone talks Monday, the presidential office said. During the 25-minute conversation, Lee and Ishiba also reaffirmed the importance of bilateral ties [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Enerbility Co., a major South Korean plant builder, said Monday it has secured a 900 billion-won (US$664 million) contract to build a combined cycle power plant in Vietnam by 2028. Doosan Enerbility has formed a consortium with local plant engineering firm PECC2 to construct the 1,155-megawatt power plant [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Comedian LeeKyung-gyu is being investigated by police for allegedly driving under the influence with someone else’s car earlier this week, officials said Monday. The 64-year-old veteran comedian reportedly drove the vehicle, which was the same model as his own, on Sunday after a valet mistakenly gave him the wrong [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Just days into his presidency, Lee Jae-myung is facing a cautiously optimistic public. According to a new Realmeter survey released Monday, nearly 6 in 10 South Koreans believe the newly inaugurated leader will perform well in managing state affairs. Yet the number reflects a more tempered confidence compared to [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry voiced regret Monday over a recent anti-North Korea leaflet campaign staged by a group of families of those abducted by North Korea, “strongly” calling on them to suspend the campaign. Families of abduction victims launched four large latex balloons carrying leaflets into North Korea from the [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — While the overall incidence of sexual harassment in South Korean workplaces has declined slightly, a new government report reveals a troubling surge in online abuse—a shift attributed to the rise in remote and hybrid work settings. According to a triennial survey released Monday by the Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea concludes its 21st presidential election, the country is now contending with the environmental aftermath: a staggering amount of waste generated by campaign materials, including brochures, posters, and banners. According to the National Election Commission (NEC) on June 8, over 580 million sheets of election brochures were distributed [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appeals court has ruled in favor of a 107-year-old victim of Japan’s wartime forced labor, ordering Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to pay compensation nearly 80 years after the abuse occurred. The civil appeals division of the Seoul Central District Court overturned a 2022 lower court decision that had [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Political uncertainty in South Korea has eased sharply following the June 3 presidential election, returning to levels not seen since before last year’s state of emergency declaration, according to data released by the Bank of Korea. The central bank reported that the nation’s Political Uncertainty Index stood at 1.5 [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities continued recovery operations Friday at a railway construction site in the city of Yongin after a heavy drilling rig toppled into a nearby apartment building. The accident occurred at 10:13 p.m. Thursday, when a drilling rig, which is a heavy construction machine used for boring into the ground, [...]