SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national police said it will expand the mandate of its mobile patrol units, deploying them more aggressively to prevent stalking and other relationship-based crimes, amid ongoing debate over the units’ effectiveness. The Korean National Police Agency announced on August 24 that patrol officers will be concentrated around [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – President Lee Jae Myung said Sunday that it is difficult to agree on a demand by Washington on the strategic flexibility of the U.S. forces stationed in South Korea, as the decades-old alliance between Seoul and Washington is expected to face a monumental change, possibly to better deter China. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Fire Research Institute announced Sunday that it will pilot new visual and audio devices designed to reduce ambulance collisions at intersections, deploying them across seven regions over the next three months. The system combines a “logo light,” which projects warning messages such as “ambulance approaching” onto [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will more than quadruple the capacity of its national backbone network — the core infrastructure of the country’s telecommunications system — by 2030 to handle an expected surge in traffic from artificial intelligence technologies, the government announced Sunday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it plans [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In the coastal city of Gangneung, residents are grappling with extreme drought that has left their main water source, the Obong Reservoir, at a record low of 17.8 percent of capacity, compared with a seasonal average of 69 percent. Officials fear the level could soon fall to 15 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Seoul announced Sunday that it will introduce South Korea’s first fully driverless autonomous shuttle as early as late September, marking a milestone in the country’s push toward next-generation urban mobility. The 11-seat shuttle, developed by domestic start-up Autonomous AtoZ, was built from the ground up for self-driving purposes. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s business community reacted with alarm on Sunday after the National Assembly, led by the Democratic Party, passed the so-called Yellow Envelope Law, a sweeping revision to labor legislation that broadens the definition of strikes and limits corporate damage claims against workers. Six of the country’s largest business lobbies [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s ruling party presses ahead with the passage of the so-called Yellow Envelope Law, one of the country’s most prominent foreign manufacturers, GM Korea, has urged the government to reconsider, warning that its Korean operations could face a reassessment by Detroit headquarters. At a closed-door meeting convened [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Assembly has approved amendments to the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act, known as the Yellow Envelope Law, granting subcontracted and platform workers broader bargaining rights and restricting corporate claims for damages against unions. The law, passed on August 24, will take effect after a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a decade after it was first proposed, South Korea’s National Assembly on Sunday passed the so-called Yellow Envelope Law, a landmark revision to the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act that limits companies’ ability to claim damages against striking workers and strengthens protections for subcontracted labor. The legislation, [...]