SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan shared information about North Korea’s launch of what it claimed to be a military spy satellite, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday. “We immediately detected, tracked and monitored the launch, and shared related information among South Korea, the United [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s claimed success in placing its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit on its third attempt has raised the possibility it could have received technological assistance from Russia. North Korea said a new type of Chollima-1 space rocket successfully put the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit on Tuesday night, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Wednesday, one day after North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite. The USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), a Los Angeles-class submarine, entered the Jeju Naval Base on the southern resort island in the morning, the South Korean Navy said, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The neon damselfish, a tropical species of damselfish once limited to the warm waters around Jeju Island, has recently been found in large numbers further north around Ulleungdo. On Tuesday, the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) disclosed that an ongoing investigation launched in 2021 had identified a total of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that unmarried South Koreans who have experienced divorce exhibit divergent preferences in terms of the messages they would have liked to receive from their former spouses during their marriage. Notably, men who were previously married express a strong desire to hear encouraging words like “you’re [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s professional football league, the ‘K-League,’ has undertaken an eco-friendly initiative by publishing a groundbreaking report that measures the greenhouse gas emissions of each professional team. This marks the first such endeavor among domestic professional sports. The Korea Professional Football League (KPFL) made the announcement during a regular briefing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of every 6 South Korean married women suffered a career break during the first half of the year due mainly to pregnancy and child-rearing, data showed Tuesday. The number of married women aged 15-54 who stopped working during the January-June period came to 1.34 million, according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier arrived at a naval base in the southeastern city of Busan on Tuesday, South Korea’s Navy said, hours after North Korea notified Japan of a plan to launch a space rocket in the coming days. The nuclear-powered vessel of Carrier Strike Group 1 [...]
LONDON, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Britain will adopt the “Downing Street Accord” on the occasion of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit to London to upgrade their relations to a “global strategic partnership” and deepen cooperation in the security and economic realms, the presidential office said Monday. The accord, which will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A tour program to the truce village of Panmunjom on the inter-Korean border will partially resume this week, the unification ministry said Tuesday. The move came a day after Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho met with Gen. Paul LaCamera, chief of the United Nations Command (UNC), to discuss how to [...]