SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – In a move to ensure equal access to justice for non-Korean speakers, the National Court Administration of South Korea inaugurated a Court Interpretation Center at the Seoul Eastern District Court on July 17. The center, which began operations on July 1, aims to provide consistent interpretation services to courts nationwide [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s formal nomination as the Republican flag-bearer this week is raising anew crucial policy questions over how he would deal with advancing North Korean threats, the alliance with South Korea and other high-stakes issues should he return to office. Both hope and concern have been [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military conducted propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea in response to its latest launch of trash-carrying balloons into the South, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday. The broadcasts took place from Thursday evening to early Friday in areas near where the balloons were launched, the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Environmental groups and families of disaster victims gathered on July 17, South Korea’s Constitution Day, to urge the government to guarantee citizens’ right to live in a safe environment. At a press conference held at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions office in central Seoul, the Climate Crisis Emergency Action [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has referred 18 doctors, medical students and others to the prosecution for a probe into their alleged involvement in drawing up or releasing a list of junior doctors who returned to hospitals following their walkout, the health ministry said Thursday. Last week, a list of junior doctors [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean appeals court has rejected a lawsuit filed by civic groups in Busan seeking to prevent the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) from releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. The 5th Civil Division of the Busan High Court, presided over by Judge [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite monthslong efforts by the medical community and the government for a breakthrough, over 10,000 striking trainee doctors were presumed to leave hospitals as they have decided not to withdraw their resignations, the health ministry said Thursday. More than 90 percent of around 13,000 junior doctors walked off their [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have started discharging water from the upstream of a dam near the inter-Korean border in the early hours of Thursday without giving prior notice to South Korea, the environment ministry said. Satellite imagery taken at 3 a.m. showed the downstream of the North’s Hwanggang Dam [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A prominent North Korean defector was named as the new head of the presidential advisory council on unification, the presidential office said Thursday. President Yoon Suk Yeol has tapped Tae Yong-ho, a former North Korean deputy ambassador to Britain, as the secretary general for the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – HD Hyundai, a leading South Korean industrial conglomerate, announced on July 17 the inauguration of its Naval Technology Institute within the company’s Global R&D Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The new institute represents an expansion of the Naval Technology Center, previously part of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Special Ship Division. [...]