SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government allowed community health centers to provide remote clinical services via video or phone appointments on Wednesday, a senior official said, as a mass walkout by junior doctors has disrupted public health services at major hospitals for more than six weeks. Telemedicine services have been extended to all [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has confirmed the conviction of a liquor tycoon’s scion indicted for offering illicit business favors to a subsidiary, judicial officials said Wednesday. In a ruling made March 12, the top court upheld a prison sentence of one year and three months, suspended for two years, for [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is open to the possibility of changing its policy to increase the medical school admission quota if a better option is proposed, the interior minister said Wednesday, as the walkout by protesting trainee doctors continued for the seventh week. Interior Minister Lee Sang-min made the remark during [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The financial regulator and Naver, the top online portal operator, signed an agreement Wednesday on cooperation for the digitalization of the financial sector. Under the memorandum of understanding, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) will seek to utilize Naver’s latest information technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to boost its [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – As cherry blossom season arrives in South Korea, an assortment of online posts have appeared seeking to hire companions to join in the annual festivities of viewing the blooming flowers. One such listing on a secondhand trading site offered 70,000 won for a four-hour stint from 2 p.m. to 6 [...]
DAEJEON, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Daejeon, a metropolitan city in South Korea, has the highest proportion of single-person households nationwide, according to the latest census data. As of 2022, 38.5 percent of households in the region consisted of just one individual, far exceeding the national average of 34.5 percent. While the image of a single-person [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In South Korea, the pay disparity between top executives and average employees in major corporations has reached a staggering level. Last year, the average annual salary for CEOs of large companies was reported at 2.09 billion won, while their employees earned an average of 87 million won, resulting in a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) –Nearly 250,000 illegal sexual videos were removed from the web last year, a 15 percent increase from the year before, data showed Tuesday. A total of 8,983 victims received help from the support center for online sexual abuse victims, up 12.6 percent year-on-year, according to a report by the Advocacy [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With a prolonged strike by resident physicians in South Korea disrupting hospital operations, many nurses are reconsidering their career paths, with an increasing number exploring opportunities to work overseas, where the nursing profession is more robust and offers better compensation. Cho, 33, a nurse at a university hospital in Uijeongbu, [...]
UIJONGBU, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting April 27, residents of Gyeonggi Province in South Korea will be required to obtain a permit from the provincial governor to keep certain dog breeds designated as potentially dangerous, according to an announcement made on April 1 by local authorities. The new permit system for “dangerous dogs” stems from [...]