SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has launched a nationwide vaccination campaign for children and pregnant women with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), years after they missed out on essential vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaign aims to inoculate over 800,000 children and 120,000 pregnant women with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Ethiopia have held a policy consultation meeting on envisioned joint projects in energy, transportation and health care fields through the cooperation fund, Seoul’s finance ministry said Wednesday. During the meeting held in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, the two nations chose energy, transportation and health and medical [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The health ministry on Wednesday began deploying military doctors and public physicians to hospital emergency rooms suffering from staff shortages, but concerns about further disruptions to the health care system have grown, officials said. The government deployed 15 military doctors to assist in emergency rooms of five hospitals, including [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Major South Korean companies are experiencing a simultaneous decrease in new hires and employee resignations, raising concerns about potential workforce stagnation, according to a recent analysis by the Leaders Index, a corporate analysis research institute. The study, released on September 3, examined 128 companies among South Korea’s top 500 by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A hospital in Seoul’s Seocho district has captured public attention with its unconventional employee benefits, including vacation time and celebratory payments for divorced staff members. The unique workplace policies of this hair transplant clinic were featured on MBC’s reality show “The Manager” on August 31, offering a glimpse into a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a harrowing incident that has sparked outrage and raised questions about South Korea’s emergency medical system, a 2-year-old girl fell into a coma after being denied treatment by 11 hospitals in the western Seoul metropolitan area. The child, who was suffering from a febrile seizure, a condition common in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The government on Tuesday designated Armed Forces Day on Oct. 1 as a temporary holiday this year to boost troop morale and domestic consumption. A motion to designate the holiday was passed during a Cabinet meeting and signed off by President Yoon Suk Yeol later in the day. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Social network platform companies should be obligated to delete deepfake pornographic materials or face penalties if they do not comply as part of efforts to root out deepfake crimes, a criminal profiler said Tuesday. Lee Soo-jung, a forensic psychology professor at Kyonggi University in Seoul, made the remark during [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s media regulator said Tuesday encrypted messaging app Telegram has complied with its request to remove certain deepfake pornographic content on its platform and apologized for its response to digital sex crimes. Numerous chat rooms suspected of creating and distributing deepfake porn content with doctored photos of Korean [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Ocean Co., a major South Korean defense and shipbuilding company, said Tuesday it has begun maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for a 40,000-ton logistics support vessel of the U.S. Navy. The Wally Schirra arrived at Hanwha Ocean’s shipyard in Geoje on the southern coast of South Korea [...]