SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to the spread of smartphones, illegal spy cam porn crimes have soared and the rate of second offenders is also high. The Ministry of Justice analyzed 74,956 sex crimes and 2901 cases of re-registration under the sex offender registry from 2008 to 2018. As a result, “indecent act [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery workers on Thursday called for heightened safety measures as demand for online shipping and food deliveries are surging in line with the spreading new coronavirus. “Delivery workers who meet customers every day and work outdoors face a risky situation, but measures by companies and the government are not [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A dozen additional countries and parts of China have enacted entry restrictions on travelers from South Korea over coronavirus concerns, according to the foreign ministry Thursday, bringing the total number of such countries to 43. The State Department’s travel advisory was raised by one notch to Level 3, the second-highest [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of discouraged workers in South Korea touched an all-time high in 2019, data showed Thursday, pointing to a tough employment situation amid an economic slowdown. Asia’s fourth-largest economy registered a monthly average of 533,000 discouraged workers last year, up 1.6 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of countries imposing entry bans on travelers who recently visited South Korea’s southeastern city of Daegu and the nearby county of Cheongdo is on the rise, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Wednesday, following a spike in confirmed novel coronavirus cases there. Earlier in the day, Japan approved the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — While the rapid spread of the new coronavirus infection has made it difficult to find masks in South Korea, made in Korea masks are relatively easy to buy in China. In fact, it is not difficult to buy made in Korea masks with Korean packaging if keywords such as [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A story of young doctors wanting to go back on duty after being quarantined for being in contact with a coronavirus patient is moving the hearts of the public. Thirteen of 48 interns at Kyungpook National University Hospital in country’s southeastern city of Daegu, where hundreds of COVID-19 infections [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus outbreak is driving local authorities to cancel job fairs and job seekers to postpone their applications. The city of Ansan in Gyeonggi Province decided to cancel both this month and next month’s job fair that used to be held regularly on the 19th every month. Officials in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Child care centers across South Korea will close for 10 days as part of the government’s latest efforts to limit COVID-19 infections among the country’s younger population, the government said Wednesday. “To prevent COVID-19 infections among infants, the government will close child care centers across the nation from Feb. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Korean adults still dream of moving to a different country, despite their enormous efforts to stay abreast of the intensely competitive society. According to the results of an online survey of 4,229 adults conducted by job portal Saramin, 60.2 percent of the respondents said they [...]