SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A nationwide strike by doctors is unlikely to be realized, the health ministry said Thursday, though trainee doctors and medical school students have moved to take collective action against medical school enrollment quota hikes. Doctors have warned of a massive strike and other responses in opposition to the government’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean soccer is currently facing a crisis that seems ripped from a dramatic screenplay: the association’s president is missing in action, the coach has left the scene, and disputes among players have come to light. This unfortunate series of events unfolded after the national team, led by German coach [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study conducted by the Korea Youth Policy Institute revealed that more than 4 out of 10 young Koreans between the ages of 19 and 34 have avoided medical visits despite being ill, citing reasons such as busy schedules and concerns over medical expenses. The survey, which involved 4,000 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past decade, Seoul has seen an exodus of 5.47 million people, a significant population shift that highlights changing urban dynamics in South Korea’s capital. Statistics Korea reports a net outflow of 860,000 residents, with only 4.61 million people moving to Seoul during the same period, from 2014 to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Family DNA samples of more than half of the South Korean troops killed and unaccounted for in the 1950-53 Korean War have been collected as part of efforts to recover their remains, the defense ministry said Thursday. As of Wednesday, the ministry’s war remains excavation agency collected DNA samples [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor won another damages suit against a Japanese company Thursday. The Gwangju District Court in the southwestern city of Gwangju ruled in favor of 15 bereaved families of 11 South Korean forced labor victims in the litigation against Mitsubishi [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea established diplomatic relations with Cuba on Wednesday, its mission to the United Nations said, in a surprise announcement that could pose a setback to North Korea that has long boasted brotherly ties with the Latin American country. In New York, the two countries’ representatives to the United [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been several years in the making, but the southeastern port city of Busan will finally host the world championships in table tennis starting this week. Busan, 320 kilometers from Seoul, will hold the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Team Table Tennis Championships from Friday to Feb. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Thursday that it will fully expand telemedicine services and mobilize assistant nurses if a major association of trainee doctors pushes ahead with a nationwide strike in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. Tension between doctors and the government has grown [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul government and five major banks here plan to provide nearly 76 trillion won (US$56.9 billion) this year to help local businesses invest in new advanced technologies and lower their financial burdens, the financial regulator said Thursday. The move comes amid high interest rates that have placed additional [...]