SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.N. civilian aviation agency has dismissed North Korea’s request to investigate its claim of South Korean drones infiltrating Pyongyang’s airspace last year, a Seoul official said Thursday. Earlier this year, North Korea submitted the request to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for a probe into the alleged [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States kicked off a joint large-scale air exercise Thursday, the South’s Air Force said, in efforts to bolster their interoperability and combined readiness posture against North Korean threats. Some 1,100 troops and 90 aircraft from both sides were mobilized for the semiannual Freedom Flag [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia is planning to deploy North Korean soldiers on Ukrainian territory in the ongoing war between the two countries, dressing them in Russian uniforms, a Ukrainian security official has claimed. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council’s Center for Countering Disinformation, posted the claim on [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has tested a new radar technology that can detect drones located a few kilometers away, the state arms agency said Thursday, in a move expected to strengthen the military’s reconnaissance capabilities. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said it successfully detected small drones located a few kilometers [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Thursday they have transferred 100 people and companies, including many current teachers, to the prosecution on suspicion of selling questions on the annual college entrance exam. The National Office of Investigation (NOI) under the National Police Agency announced the result after wrapping up a 20-month investigation into [...]
CHEONGSONG•ANDONG, South Korea, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of large-scale wildfires that swept through South Korea’s northern Gyeongsangbuk-do Province earlier this year are threatening to severely reduce the country’s apple harvest, fueling concerns that soaring prices may again lead to so-called “golden apples” in the marketplace. The fires, which ravaged key apple-producing counties [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — In a move to strengthen protections for crime victims, South Korea’s Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and the Ministry of Employment and Labor have jointly revised internal guidelines to make it easier for affected workers to receive unemployment benefits. Announced on April 16, the new policy allows individuals who leave their jobs [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top food delivery app Baemin is facing mounting criticism from small business owners after it began charging a 6.8% service fee on takeout orders this week—a move seen as a reversal of the hard-won compromise on delivery commissions reached in 2024. On April 14, the first day the [...]
SUWON, South Korea, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have launched an investigation into a man who allegedly killed five of his family members, including his parents and children, officials said Wednesday. The man in his 50s is accused of drugging five family members with sleeping pills and strangling them to death at an apartment [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Acting President Han Duck-soo said Wednesday that strengthening shipbuilding cooperation with the United States could provide an opportunity for the South Korean shipbuilding industry to “make a leap forward.” Han made the remark during his visit to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Co.’s shipyard in Ulsan, 305 kilometers southeast [...]