SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea’s spy agency said Monday it has identified 38 fake Korean-language news websites suspected of being operated by Chinese companies. Two Chinese public relations companies — Haimai and Haixun — have created fake Korean news websites, posting articles of local news outlets without consent and posing as members [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will relax the maximum 52-hour weekly work hours for certain business sectors with heavy workloads, officials said Monday. “While retaining the 52-hour workweek system, the government plans to come up with reform measures for certain types of industries and occupations,” Vice Labor Minister Lee Sung-hee said. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — When nearly half a million students sit down across the country for the all-important once-a-year college entrance exam this week, a group of 10 teenage inmates will join the test in their separate test room set up behind bars. The exam takers are students of Mandela Boys’ School, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States held annual security talks Monday as the two countries seek to update joint military strategies on North Korea in case the regime attempts to use nuclear weapons. Updating the “tailored deterrence strategy” and improving the credibility of the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Monday renewed its calls for dissolving the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC), claiming that a plan by South Korea and UNC member states to hold the inaugural defense ministerial meeting this week is a “dangerous” scheme to spark a “new war of aggression” against the North. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed Sunday to launch a real-time missile warning data sharing system next month to better detect and assess North Korea’s ballistic missile launches, Seoul’s defense ministry said. The defense chiefs of the three nations reached the agreement during their meeting on the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – At 9:10 p.m. on November 11, at Jamsil Station on Seoul Subway Line No. 2, station employees on patrol discovered a homeless person sleeping inside the station. They attempted to wake him and escort him out of the station, but the homeless person responded with threats and physically attacked them. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has ruled that the repurposing of luxury items, a process commonly referred to as “reform” in South Korea, constitutes trademark infringement. According to legal sources on Sunday, the 63rd Civil Chamber of the Seoul Central District Court, in a trademark infringement prohibition case brought by Louis [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is poised to announce a series of measures later this year to break the monopoly held by banks as they have been raking in record profits from interest income, according to sources from the presidential office on Friday. This decision follows President Yoon Suk Yeol’s strong criticism [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Two major umbrella unions plan to stage large-scale rallies in central Seoul this weekend, as police warned of stern measures against illegal acts in violation of the revised Assembly and Demonstration Act. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the biggest umbrella labor union in South Korea, along with [...]