CHUNCHEON, South Korea, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The season’s first tropical night hit the eastern coastal city of Gangneung on Monday, occurring a week earlier than last year, the weather agency said Tuesday. A tropical night refers to when the lowest temperature does not fall below 25 C between 6:01 p.m. and 9 a.m. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The gender ministry is set to launch an official survey on isolated and reclusive teens for the first time starting Tuesday as part of efforts to identify such groups and come up with support measures. Isolated teenagers refer to those without someone to rely on in case of emergencies, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A former team leader at LG Display has received a final prison sentence for attempting to leak the company’s core technologies, including AMOLED display technology, to a Chinese competitor. The Supreme Court’s Second Division upheld the original ruling of one year and six months in prison and a fine of [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Over a dozen professors, who illegally tutored students preparing for music college entrance exams and gave high scores to them as examiners for practical tests, have been referred to the prosecution for a possible indictment, police said Monday. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it has turned 14 music [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is set to introduce swifter penalties for non-custodial parents who defy court orders to pay child support, including travel bans and driver’s license suspensions if the amount in arrears is over 30 million won or they are delinquent on more than three payments. The Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In a legal dispute surrounding the planned closure of Myongji University’s Go department, the only such program in the world, a court has rejected a request by professors and students to suspend the university’s admission plan that would discontinue new student enrollment. According to legal circles, the Seoul Southern District [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — After hosting an inaugural summit with 48 African nations last week, President Yoon Suk Yeol is now heading to Central Asia for another round of “sales diplomacy” aimed at enhancing economic partnerships with resource-rich nations. Yoon kicked off a weeklong trip to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on Monday for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has completed the development of a high-tech radar system expected to bolster the military’s surveillance capabilities along the coastline, the state arms procurement agency said Monday. The GPS-240K, which was developed to replace the existing radar system that had been in operation for more than 25 years, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports to the United States exceeded those to China so far this year, data showed Monday, raising the possibility that the U.S. could be the top export destination for South Korea for the first time in 22 years. Outbound shipments to the U.S. amounted to $53.3 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government ordered community doctors to keep providing medical treatment and report to authorities when they close their businesses, after the doctors voted to stage a strike in protest of the government’s medical reform. Cho issued the order a day after the Korean [...]