SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched its second indigenous spy satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida on Monday (Seoul time), according to the defense ministry. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:17 a.m. (7:17 p.m. local time) from the John F. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is ready to discuss with doctors about an increased quota in medical school admissions in an open manner if they come up with a unified and more reasonable measure, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday. About 12,000 trainee doctors nationwide have left their workplaces since Feb. 20 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 6 (Korea Bizwire) –With a new law mandating transparency on loot box odds in video games taking effect, multiple South Korean game companies have acknowledged errors in how they previously disclosed the probabilities of receiving rare in-game items, raising concerns among gamers about potential manipulation. In recent days, major publishers including Gravity for [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) –The Asan Medical Center in Seoul has racked up losses of more than 50 billion won over the past 40 days, a staggering financial toll from a nationwide strike by resident physicians protesting the government’s plan to expand medical school admissions. In an email to faculty members on April 3, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – An analysis of the 2024 academic year’s medical school admission results in South Korea has revealed a striking concentration of successful applicants hailing from the capital city of Seoul and those who have repeated a year or more after high school graduation, colloquially known as “N-students.” According to data obtained [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors plan to file a constitutional appeal over the government’s decision to raise medical school admissions, claiming the increase violates their basic rights, officials said Friday. The Medical Professors Association of Korea is scheduled to file the petition with the Constitutional Court before the April 10 general elections [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Friday it has designated six overseas partner institutions to establish global technology cooperation centers, aiming to advance research projects focused on core technologies. The country will seek to establish such centers under ties with MIT, Yale University, Purdue University, Fraunhofer, Johns Hopkins University and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is in talks with China and Japan to set a specific date to host a long-stalled trilateral summit next month, a foreign ministry official said Friday. “We are currently discussing the date of the summit in Seoul, and we will let you know the specific date as [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has been ramping up preparations for an art festival celebrating the 112th birthday of late founder Kim Il-sung this month, with art troupes from Russia, China and Mongolia expected to participate in the event, state media reported Friday. North Korea is preparing to hold the 33rd April [...]
INCHEON, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTuber in his 40s has been referred to prosecutors for further investigation and potential indictment on charges of installing spy cameras at about 40 polling stations ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections, officials said Friday. The YouTuber has been under police custody since last week as a [...]