SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment rate for women exceeded the 60 percent mark for the first time last year, but the wage gap between genders still remains high, a government report showed Wednesday. The employment index for women aged 15 to 64 reached 60 percent in 2022, up 7.3 percentage points from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Choi Yeon-su, a 24-year-old office worker, rehearsed over and over again how to use her bag to protect herself in a self-defense class last weekend, as the instructor told the students to hold up their bags diagonally to better shield against a knife attack. “Always bear in mind that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent report, the quantity of marine debris amassed within the nation’s marine national parks saw a significant increase last year compared to previous years, surpassing a total of 2,000 tons. This data, originally sourced from the Korea National Park Service, was revealed by a member of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Safety management in car-sharing services, which offer non-face-to-face vehicle rentals, is substandard, leading to ongoing consumer losses such as excessive repair costs, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Consumer Agency with 66 vehicles from the nation’s major car-sharing platforms, including Green Car, Socar [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Doctors’ associations filed a constitutional appeal on Tuesday over a revised medical law requiring hospitals to place surveillance cameras in operating rooms, claiming it violates the personal rights of physicians. The Korea Medical Association (KMA) and the Korean Hospital Association filed the petition with the Constitutional Court, ahead of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government decided to spend a record budget this year to prop up consumption of seafood amid public concerns over its safety following Japan’s release of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, the oceans ministry said Tuesday. The Cabinet endorsed a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical community has reacted strongly to a recent Supreme Court ruling involving a surgeon who faced legal consequences for delaying surgery on a patient with a small bowel obstruction due to professional negligence. In the past month, the top court upheld the decision regarding an individual referred [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A groundbreaking microbial approach has been devised to rescue the Korean fir, a species indigenous to Korea that is teetering on the brink of extinction due to the effects of climate change. Remarkably, this tree, which ranks as one of the world’s most expensive Christmas trees, remains relatively unknown [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean defense companies were set to showcase advanced weapons systems at an annual major arms exhibition in Poland this week, Seoul’s arms procurement agency said Tuesday, as the two countries seek to step up security cooperation. The International Defense Industry Exhibition, or MSPO, will kick off later in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean steelmaker POSCO is currently facing its first labor strike crisis since its foundation. The labor union at POSCO, which is affiliated with the Korean Metal Workers’ Union under the Federation of Korean Trade Unions umbrella, will hold an inaugural ceremony for its Dispute Countermeasures Committee at the [...]