GWANGJU, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a groundbreaking move, the Gwangju Goryeoin Village in South Korea has launched the country’s first Russian-language emergency alert system, addressing a long-standing communication gap for its ethnic Korean residents from post-Soviet states. On June 22, residents of the Goryeoin Village in Gwangsan District, Gwangju, received their first heavy rain [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a groundbreaking move, Seoul’s Jongno district has designated the iconic Bukchon Hanok Village as South Korea’s first “Special Management Area,” introducing strict regulations to balance tourism with residents’ quality of life. The new measures, set to take effect as early as March next year, will limit tourist access and [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Tuesday it has held the fourth round of negotiations with the European Union for a digital agreement. The talks were held in Seoul for a three-day run after the two sides announced the start of negotiations in October last year, according to the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Tuesday called for trainee doctors to swiftly make their decision on whether or not to return to hospitals, as most of them have shown little sign of returning despite the government’s appeasement steps. About 12,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites since late February [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol called Tuesday for scientific safety measures to address rising concerns over hard-to-extinguish fires after a lithium battery plant went up in flames last week and killed nearly two dozen workers. Yoon made the remarks during a Cabinet meeting after the fire at the Aricell lithium [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry on Tuesday unveiled newly declassified documents shedding light on inter-Korean talks on sports and humanitarian cooperation from 1981-87, following North Korea’s deadly bombing attack in then Burma in 1983. The dossier includes minutes of inter-Korean talks in the 1980s, ranging from the issue of fielding a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on July 1 that it will introduce reusable containers at Samsung Medical Center’s funeral hall starting this month. This marks the first instance of a large-scale funeral facility in a top-tier general hospital participating in Seoul’s reusable container policy. Last year, the city government unveiled [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to announce measures to strengthen industrial safety for foreign workers later this month following last week’s deadly fire at a battery plant that claimed 23 lives, including 18 foreigners, the labor minister said Monday. Seventeen Chinese nationals and one from Laos were killed in the fire [...]
GWANGJU, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A national trauma treatment center began operations Monday for victims of state violence in the southwestern city of Gwangju, the site of the bloody crackdown on a 1980 pro-democracy uprising. The establishment of the state violence trauma treatment center follows four years of pilot projects conducted since 2020, aimed [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s data protection watchdog is nearing the completion of its probe into the Chinese e-commerce firms AliExpress and Temu over consumer data protection and will likely take actions soon upon its results, its chief said Monday. The investigation into the two companies “has been completed,” Ko Hak-soo, the [...]