SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will issue its first government-backed ethics guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence on university campuses, amid a surge in cheating cases involving AI tools such as ChatGPT. According to the office of Kim Yong-tae, an opposition lawmaker who sits on the National Assembly’s Education Committee, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A public petition opposing a potential ban on South Korea’s popular dawn delivery services surpassed 25,000 signatures on Thursday, one day before a government-labor-industry dialogue committee is set to meet for a third round of discussions on the issue. The petition, filed by a self-described working mother, argues that overnight [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry on Thursday vowed to keep up its arms industry cooperation with Poland after a domestic defense firm failed to win a contract to supply next-generation submarines to the European country. On Wednesday, Poland said it has chosen Swedish defense firm Saab as the winner of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has taken another step toward remaking itself as a global center of artificial intelligence. On Thursday, the government convened the first meeting of a new working group made up of officials and senior executives from Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Telecom and Naver Cloud. The mission: figure [...]
JEONJU, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appeals court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a security guard accused of stealing a 1,050-won snack — a case that drew widespread attention as a modern-day “Les Misérables” story and raised questions about prosecutorial discretion. The Jeonju District Court’s criminal appeals division acquitted the 41-year-old defendant, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Google will roll out a lower-priced version of YouTube Premium in South Korea that excludes its music-streaming service, the country’s antitrust regulator said Thursday, following a months-long probe into whether the company’s subscription bundling violated fair-trade rules. The launch is part of a corrective plan Google submitted under a consent-decision [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s average household income rose for the ninth consecutive quarter in the third quarter of this year, partly driven by a sharp increase in transfer income, government data showed Thursday. The average monthly income of households came to 5.44 million won (US$3,699) in the July-September period, up 3.5 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean young adults are taking significantly longer to land their first full-time job, with those living outside the Seoul metropolitan area facing a growing disadvantage, according to new government research released Thursday. A study by the Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS) found that the average job-search period for young [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — What once felt like the plot of a workplace drama is increasingly echoing real life for many middle-aged South Koreans. In the popular series The Dream Life of Mr.Kim (the story of manager Kim working at a large company in Seoul), a seemingly secure executive finds himself abruptly sidelined and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said Wednesday that South Korea stands ready to take “decisive action” to curb excessive volatility in the foreign-exchange market, as the won continues to face downward pressure against the U.S. dollar. “The won tends to react more sensitively than other currencies,” Koo told reporters, adding that [...]