SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for the so-called spin kick assailant in the southeastern port city of Busan, who caused social outrage last year due to his brutal attacks on a female stranger for the purpose of rape. The defendant, whose identity has been [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is giving digital devices called “D-beots” to all first-year middle school students in Seoul to create a digital learning environment. The name “D-beot” comes from combining the Korean words “beot,” which means friend, and “D,” which stands for digital. Essentially, D-beot refers to digital [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – By December of this year, a new laptop called “Onbook” designed for government employees will be rolled out in several government departments. The Ministry of Strategy and Finance, Ministry of Unification, Forest Service, and the Daegu Office of Education are set to receive these laptops. The Ministry of Education, Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has ordered the demolition of a café building in Ulsan that imitated a famous award-winning café building in Gijang, Busan. The 11th Civil Chamber of the Seoul Western District Court ruled partially in favor of Kwak Hee-soo, the head of IDMM Architects, who filed a compensation suit [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has announced plans to triple the carryover limit for greenhouse gas emission rights, an initiative aimed at boosting trading in the greenhouse gas emission rights market. Additionally, the government will extend the conversion period for carbon offsets, allowing greenhouse gas reduction achievements to be converted into [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – More than four out of 10 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have filed patent applications have suffered damages from technology theft but did not take separate measures due to difficulty in verifying the extent of the damages. The Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business conducted a ‘Policy Demand [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Greenpeace, a non-governmental environmental organization, said Wednesday it will file a constitutional petition urging the adoption of a system that requires listed companies to disclose information on their response to climate change. The petition, joined by 167 people as petitioners, will be submitted to the Constitutional Court later in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to permit the sale of exchange-traded funds tracking the greenhouse gas emission trading market beginning next year as part of efforts to activate the country’s sluggish emission trading, officials said Wednesday. The move by the government’s emission rights allocation committee comes as trading prices of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A 30-year-old man accused of threatening a driver with a knife over a parking dispute last week was referred to prosecutors for further investigation, police said Wednesday. The suspect, identified only by his surname Hong, was formally arrested last Wednesday for allegedly revealing to the driver a sashimi knife, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Russian Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday dismissed reports that Moscow and Pyongyang discussed military cooperation at last week’s bilateral summit. On Tuesday, Seoul’s foreign ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Andrey Kulik over Moscow’s alleged discussions of military cooperation with Pyongyang during the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un [...]