SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol called Tuesday for scientific safety measures to address rising concerns over hard-to-extinguish fires after a lithium battery plant went up in flames last week and killed nearly two dozen workers. Yoon made the remarks during a Cabinet meeting after the fire at the Aricell lithium [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch a new ministry of population strategy to address low birth rates and a rapidly aging population, which have emerged as some of the starkest challenges facing the country, officials said Monday. The government unveiled the plan following high-level meetings with the ruling party, saying that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors at three Korea University-affiliated hospitals vowed Monday to start an indefinite voluntary walkout later this month, amid a prolonged standoff between doctors and the government over its medical reform plan. The emergency committee of the professors serving as senior doctors at the university announced the walkout starting [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Korea Motors Co., the South Korean unit of French auto group Renault S.A., has apologized following an online backlash over purported misandry imagery contained in the company’s YouTube videos. On Saturday, Renault Korea blocked public access to videos that have been available on Renault Inside, one of its [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, appears to have entered a phase of extinction due to low birthrates and superaging population, becoming the nation’s first metropolitan city to do so, said a research paper published on Friday. The paper from the Korea Employment Information Service estimated Busan’s ratio of the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Allegations of death by overwork have surfaced following the passing of a 40-year-old delivery driver who had been working for Coupang’s late-night Rocket Delivery service. On June 27, the Committee for Countermeasures Against Overwork Deaths of Delivery Workers and the family of the deceased, Jung Seul-gi, held a press conference [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A memoir by former National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo has sparked political debate with the claim that President Yoon Suk Yeol speculated the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush may have been manipulated. In his memoir revealed Thursday, Kim recounted his private conversation with Yoon during a breakfast prayer meeting, held [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that a significant portion of South Koreans are opting out of summer vacations, with job hunting and exam preparation cited as the primary reasons. The study, conducted by EduWill, a comprehensive education company, surveyed 197 adults aged 20 to 40 over a seven-day period ending [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis by Statistics Korea’s Statistics Research Institute reveals that approximately four out of five young adults in South Korea are unmarried, with the rate of singlehood among those in their early to mid-30s tripling over the past two decades. The report, titled “How Has the Face of South [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In a significant legal decision, the Seoul Central District Court has ruled against national university students seeking tuition refunds for classes moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The verdict, delivered on June 27, marks another setback for students claiming their right to education was infringed upon due to the shift [...]