SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is likely to accept a request made by the chiefs of six national universities to lower their medical school enrollment quotas for next year, officials said Friday. The six universities, all located outside the capital region, made the request Thursday amid an ongoing standoff between the government [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students in Paraguay will be able to learn Korean as a second foreign language under an agreement between the two countries, officials said. The education ministry said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its Paraguayan counterpart, effectively adding Korean to the list of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to fully shift to an “endemic” approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, lifting some last-remaining mandates, including indoor mask requirements for hospitals, from next month, officials said Friday. The disaster level of COVID-19 will be downgraded to the lowest tier in South Korea in a way [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean War veterans from Commonwealth nations will revisit South Korea next week to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Gapyeong and other commemorative events, the veterans ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said it has invited six veterans and 15 family members from [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create venture capital funds of 23 trillion won (US$16.57 billion) in the clean energy fields to promote investment in green growth, the top economic policymaker has said. Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok announced the plan during a meeting of finance ministers and central bank deputies of the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 1,424 human-pet dog patrol teams will start their duties in Seoul next week, joining in efforts to prevent crimes and safety risks in neighborhoods across the capital, the city government said Friday. The civil patrol program launched by the city government in 2022 encourages designated pet [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – While more than half of South Koreans believe that relations with China have become strained or adversarial in recent times, an overwhelming majority still hopes the two countries can maintain friendly and cooperative ties going forward, according to the results of a poll released on April 18. The survey of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – With Earth Day approaching on April 22, the Seoul metropolitan government has unveiled a “Goodbye Plastic Seoul” campaign aimed at raising awareness about the suffering of whales caused by plastic waste, officials announced on April 18. Beginning on April 19, an augmented reality (AR) exhibition at the Cheonggyecheon Stream will [...]
HONGSEONG, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Coastal areas in South Chungcheong Province are struggling with marine debris scattered along shorelines, according to a new distribution map released on April 18 by the Chungcheong Research Institute. The researchers surveyed 190 locations along the mainland coasts last year and graded the level of pollution from 0 to 9 [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) –The number of farming households in South Korea fell below one million last year for the first time on record, according to government statistics released on April 18, underscoring the rapidly aging population in the rural areas of the country. The 2023 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Survey by Statistics Korea [...]