SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders of the Korean Medical Association (KMA), the country’s biggest doctors’ group, appeared before police on Wednesday for another round of questioning over suspicions of instigating a mass walkout by trainee doctors. Joo Soo-ho, the chief KMA spokesperson, and Park Myung-ha, the group’s organization consolidation chief, arrived at the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – An 18th century Dutch map depicting the East Sea as the “Sea of Korea” will be put on public display, offering a window into how Western cartographers viewed the waters off the Korean Peninsula centuries ago. The Northeast Asian History Foundation announced on Sunday that it will exhibit an East [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – As stubbornly high inflation persists, South Korean households are tightening their purse strings even on private education expenses, long considered the last bastion of family budgets, according to data released on March 18. BC Card, a major credit card company, reported a staggering 24 percent year-over-year plunge in education-related spending [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages in South Korea rose for the first time in more than a decade, but it hovered below the 200,000 level for three years in a row, data showed Tuesday. Around 194,000 couples tied the knot in South Korea last year, up 1 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s financial regulator unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to provide 420 trillion won (US$315 billion) in policy loans by 2030 to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Seoul has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent from business-as-usual levels. “There exist concerns that the global competitiveness of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea National Park Service announced on March 18 that it will produce Braille maps for all 22 national parks across the country by 2026, in an effort to make these natural treasures more accessible to the visually impaired. The first Braille map, covering Odaesan National Park, has been completed [...]
JEONJU, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Faced with a continuing population decline, the government of North Jeolla Province announced on March 18 that it would introduce a region-specific visa program aimed at attracting skilled foreign workers and ethnic Koreans living abroad. The new visa policy seeks to ease requirements for certain qualified foreigners and overseas Koreans, [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s antitrust regulator has launched an on-site inspection into over-the-top streaming platforms Netflix and Wavve on suspicions of their failure to properly notify users of terms of an early subscription cancellation, officials said Monday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) sent inspectors to their respective offices in Seoul and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Monday began providing English and Chinese interpretation services for the 112 emergency police number around the clock in order to help foreigners more speedily call for police help, officials said. Up until Monday, the interpretation services had been provided from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) opened a joint conference in Seoul on Monday to discuss ways to help Southeast Asian countries develop and transform their financial systems. The conference will be held for two days and discuss potential problems arising from the digitalization [...]