DAEJEON, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Efforts to replicate the designs of popular original products are about to encounter increased difficulty, with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) revealing plans to extend the timeframe for submitting applications for related designs from one to three years. As announced by the KIPO on Wednesday, the amendment to the [...]
SEOUL, BUSAN & PARIS, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) –Following Busan’s unsuccessful bid for the 2030 World Expo, Busan National University Professor Kim Yi-tae, an advisor to the Busan Expo Hosting Committee, has claimed that vote buying occurred. Kim made this revelation during a press conference held on the sidelines of the International Expositions Bureau (BIE) [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea fell by the most in about three years in September, data showed Wednesday. A total of 18,707 babies were born in September, down 14.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It is the sharpest on-year [...]
SEOUL/PARIS, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Eiffel Tower and the telephone are just a couple of the groundbreaking inventions that were introduced at the World Expo, a prestigious global fair held every five years with the potential to generate economic benefits and stimulate job creation. Since its inaugural event in 1851, the Paris-based Bureau [...]
PARIS/SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Busan came up short in its bid to host the 2030 World Expo on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh won a resounding victory over Busan and Italy’s Rome without a runoff vote. Members of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the body responsible for overseeing the international [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — “English tutor robots” will be introduced to elementary and middle schools in Seoul next year to assist in students’ one-on-one English conversations, the municipal education office said Wednesday. The use of robots in English speaking education for young students was announced by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In yet another closure of diplomatic missions, North Korea has been shutting down its embassies in Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo, foreign news reports showed Wednesday. They are the latest in the list of overseas missions Pyongyang has shut down in the past months, including those in [...]
MOKPO, South Korea, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A cargo ship believed to be Chinese submerged in waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast Wednesday, the Coast Guard said. The Mokpo Coast Guard said it received a report at around 7:28 a.m. that the 200-ton ship was sinking in waters off Gageo Island, 422 km southwest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease, has shown an alarming resurgence in recent years not only in Japan, the United States, and other countries but also in South Korea. Between February and July of this year, South Korea witnessed a concerning 10 percent year-on-year rise in syphilis cases. Choi Jun-yong, an [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a development reminiscent of a spy thriller, a criminal syndicate engaged in voice phishing, or “vishing,” has been successfully dismantled by South Korean authorities. The enterprising organization, amassing a staggering 15 billion won (approximately $13.5 million) in illicit proceeds, resorted to a method straight out of Hollywood to elude [...]