SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Hospitals will be required to install surveillance cameras in operating rooms and record surgery procedures at the request of patients starting next week, the health ministry said Friday. The revised Medical Service Act, set to take effect Monday, also calls for storing recorded videos for at least 30 days, [...]
NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol held another round of back-to-back summits with world leaders in New York on Thursday as he rampped up his push to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo in Busan. Since his arrival in New York on Monday to attend [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held a politburo meeting with top officials to discuss the outcome of his latest summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and called for thorough follow-up measures, state media reported Friday. During the political bureau meeting of the central committee of the Workers’ Party [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, later this week, an official said Friday. Han will depart for China on Saturday to attend the opening ceremony, which is set to take place [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States kicked off their first joint underwater excavation project earlier this month to recover the remains of American soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, the defense ministry said Friday. Some 10 South Korean military personnel, and 20 from the U.S. Forces Korea and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Industry Minister Bang Moon-kyu met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves in Seoul on Friday and asked for addressing concerns among domestic chipmakers regarding Washington’s semiconductor export controls on China, his office said. In October last year, the U.S. announced a set of rules that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s foreign ministry on Friday welcomed Saudi Arabia’s recent discussions with Yemen’s Houthi delegation amid efforts for a cease-fire to end the yearslong conflict in the region. “Our government welcomes the recent talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to resolve the Yemen issue, and recognizes the continuous efforts of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea witnessed a decline in its suicide rate and the number of suicide deaths last year compared to a year earlier but suicides among teenagers and individuals in their 40s increased. The overall decline in the suicide rate can be attributed to the return to normalcy following the termination [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of closed schools is increasing across the country due to a low birth rate and population concentration in metropolitan areas. However, one out of four closed schools remains abandoned without being repurposed. According to data on the current trend of closed school assets compiled by city and provincial [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The value of damage to agricultural crops caused by wildlife such as boars and elk amounted to 54.2 billion won over the past five years. According to data received by Eoh Kiy-ku, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party, from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Agriculture [...]