JEJU, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – On the summit of Hallasan, the highest mountain on South Korea’s Jeju Island, a recent social media post showed a hiker enjoying a beloved Korean culinary staple: a cup of instant ramen noodle soup. But that seemingly innocuous snapshot has highlighted an increasingly vexing environmental issue for the national park [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Beginning on April 1, all electric vehicles sold in South Korea will be required to display color-coded labels indicating their energy efficiency rating on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the most efficient. The new five-tier rating system, introduced by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea recorded its lowest number of fatalities from highway traffic accidents last year, a mere 150 deaths that officials attribute largely to increased efforts to prevent drowsy driving through expanded rest areas and improved facilities. According to the Korea Expressway Corporation, the 2023 death toll marked a decrease [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea approaches the introduction of artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks, a significant number of teachers have expressed reservations about the challenges of maintaining digital equipment and the risks of excessive device usage among students, according to a recent survey. The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union announced on March [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s ongoing push for medical reform is for the people, and it cannot be subject to negotiations, the health ministry said Friday, effectively rejecting the medical community’s call for modifying the state plan to markedly raise medical school enrollment quota. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has been accelerating a project to construct regional factories, with mobilized troops completing excavation work so that modernized factories can be built, state media reported Friday. Ordered by its leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea kicked off a project last month to build modernized factories in 20 counties [...]
INCHEON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTuber in his 40s has been detained on suspicions of installing spy cameras at polling stations in Incheon, west of Seoul, where early voting will take place ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections, police said Friday. The man is suspected of breaking into two early voting polling [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Former professional baseball player Oh Jae-won arrested last week on drug charges was transferred to the prosecution Friday for further investigation and a possible indictment, police said. The Seoul Gangnam Police Station said it sent Oh’s case to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office on charges of illegal drug [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A massive yellow dust storm blanketed South Korea on Friday, with fine dust advisories issued across many regions, including the greater Seoul area, the state weather agency said. Most central regions recorded fine dust levels exceeding the “very bad” level of over 151 micrograms per cubic meter, with Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A staggering 43 percent of patients who visited emergency rooms after attempting suicide in South Korea last year were under 30 years old, including teenagers and those in their 20s, according to a government survey released on Tuesday. The “2023 Survey on Suicide” by the Ministry of Health and Welfare [...]