SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent pardon granted by the Korean Football Association to 100 former and current soccer players, coaches, and referees who had been suspended or disciplined for various irregularities, including match-fixing, has caused a public uproar. This pardon includes 48 of the 50 players who were suspended in 2011 for [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will name a bike path at a former battle site after Turkey this week, under a program to commemorate the participation of the country and 21 others in the 1950-53 Korean War, the veterans ministry said Thursday. The ministry has arranged the program to remember the sacrifices [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The presidential office on Thursday ruled out resumption of seafood imports from Japan’s Fukushima region over radiation contamination concerns, saying the health and safety of people are the foremost priority. “Fukushima seafood will never come into the country,” the office said in a notice to media. “With regard to [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled against a family registration law that practically bars biological fathers from registering the birth of children they have in extramarital relations with married women, legal sources said Thursday. The court recently delivered the ruling in a unanimous decision on a petition filed against Articles [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans expect another new infectious disease to prevail within the next 10 years, a survey showed Wednesday. A research team led by Prof. Yoo Myung-soon of Seoul National University’s graduate school of public health conducted a survey of 1,000 adults across the country. In response to the [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of manure generated by livestock farms every year is estimated at more than 50 million tons, most of which is used as compost, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs conducted a complete enumeration survey on the current state of livestock [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Post, South Korea’s state postal office, said Wednesday it will expand the scope of a welfare registered mail service that has been offered on a trial basis in eight municipal districts to the entire country from next month. This service sends registered mail once or twice a month [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed in the 13,000 range Wednesday, a similar level from a week ago, as the government unveiled plans to shorten the mandatory COVID-19 isolation period in efforts to restore pre-pandemic normalcy. The country reported 13,134 new COVID-19 infections, including 15 cases from overseas, bringing [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With the exposé of foreigners living in harsh environments following news reports of various incidents, local governments and authorities are stepping up to come up with preventive measures. Last Monday, four young Nigerian siblings were killed in a fire that engulfed a three-story residential building in Ansan, south of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — While exports to China were once behind South Korea’s largest trade surplus with a foreign country, Beijing is now the source of Seoul’s largest trade deficit, a state-run trade agency said Tuesday. South Korea’s trade balance with China was a deficit of US$3.9 billion in January, with China becoming [...]