INCHEON, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean Muslim YouTuber with 5.52 million subscribers has faced pushback from local residents after announcing plans to build an Islamic center in Incheon, South Korea. According to the social media posts of the YouTuber, known as Mr. A, on April 13 he wrote: “With your help, I have signed [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The office of Seoul’s southern district of Gangnam has decided to ban the hosting of an upcoming adult festival on its premises, officials said Wednesday, marking the fourth entity to refuse to host the controversial event. The organizer of “2024 KXF The Fashion,” a rare adult festival in South [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As negotiations for a legally binding global plastics treaty enter a crucial phase, environmental organizations in South Korea are calling on the government to play a more assertive role in pushing for ambitious measures to tackle the plastic pollution crisis. At a news conference in Seoul on April 15, a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 1,700 South Korean religious people were massacred by North Korean military and other hostile forces around the time of the 1950-53 Korean War, a state truth panel said Wednesday. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said it has identified a list of about 1,700 religious figures massacred across the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 13,000 medical students plan to collectively seek court injunctions to halt their schools’ expansion of admission quotas, a lawyer said Wednesday, as the walkout by protesting trainee doctors continued for nearly two months. The injunction requests will be filed next Monday by students from 32 medical schools outside [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person households accounted for 33.6 percent of all households last year, up 3.2 percentage points from three years ago, with more people complaining of loneliness and difficulty dealing with emergencies or sickness alone, data showed Wednesday. Those who responded positively about living alone without marriage also jumped from 34 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.S.-led Indo-Pacific agreement on supply chains went into effect in South Korea, Seoul’s trade ministry said Wednesday. The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) was launched by U.S. President Joe Biden in 2022, involving 14 member nations, including South Korea, the United States and Japan. “The government plans to come [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 3 out of 10 foreign employees in South Korea worked 50 hours or longer per week last year, data showed Wednesday. A total of 1.43 million foreigners aged 15 and older resided in South Korea as of May 2023, and 64.5 percent of them have a job here, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on April 16 that its flagship Galaxy S24 smartphone series incorporates an amount of recycled plastic equivalent to approximately 50 million 500-milliliter plastic water bottles. In a post from its official newsroom, the company estimated that the recycled plastic used in the Galaxy S24 series this year [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As controversy swirled over the global circulation of an online slot machine game featuring the revered Korean naval commander Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the Korea Communications Standards Commission vowed to actively monitor and review such offerings to prevent their proliferation. The commission first requested that platform operators like YouTube enforce self-regulation [...]