SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Occupational Safety and Health Agency announced a significant expansion of its in-depth health screening support program, starting from February 19, aimed at workers vulnerable to brain and cardiovascular diseases due to night shifts, long hours, or advanced age, such as security guards, taxi and bus drivers, and [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – For the first time, the number of self-employed individuals over the age of 60 in South Korea has surpassed the two million mark. This significant milestone, primarily attributed to a sharp increase in seniors entering the transportation sector, including personal taxi and delivery services, reflects a broader trend of older [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Friday ordered 221 training hospitals to ban mass leave and maintain essential medical personnel, as trainee doctors decided to submit their letters of collective resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. The order came hours after trainee doctors of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors of five major general hospitals in Seoul have decided to submit their letters of resignation en masse Monday, in a move certain to intensify their strike threat over a plan to boost the number of medical students, a group of trainee doctors has said. Friday’s decision came [...]
SEOGWIPO, South Korea, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A cargo ship carrying 11 crew members sank off the southern island of Jeju, but all the people on board were safely rescued, the Coast Guard said Friday. The 1,959-ton cargo ship sent out a distress signal at 9:55 p.m. Thursday in waters 61 kilometers southwest of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added more than 300,000 jobs for the first time in three months in January, as manufacturing hiring grew for the second month in a row, data showed Friday. The number of employed people came to 27.74 million last month, up 380,000 from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In his first appearance since South Korea’s elimination from the top Asian football tournament last week, Chung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association (KFA), met with senior executives Friday to determine Jurgen Klinsmann’s fate as head coach of the men’s national team. Chung and nine members of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by Samsung Electronics highlights the significant amount of time Europeans spend contemplating household tasks, amounting to approximately 86% of the actual time dedicated to performing these chores. The survey, which involved 6,066 participants from countries including the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Poland, revealed that [...]
WONJU, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Road Traffic Authority (KoRoad) revealed on February 15 that the social cost incurred from road traffic accidents in 2022 exceeded 26 trillion won. This estimation includes the monetary value of human and material damages as well as the costs borne by social institutions. Despite a 2.6% decrease from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of teenagers caught for drug-related charges in Seoul spiked to 235 last year from 48 a year earlier, police data showed Thursday. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency released the data during a seminar held jointly with the Korean Association Against Drug Abuse to discuss ways to respond [...]