SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Tuesday the government ordered community doctors who joined a one-day walkout to return to work, warning that they would face legal punishment unless they comply with the order. The order came as about 4 percent of the nation’s 36,371 community hospitals, excluding dental and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Some community doctors were set to stage a one-day walkout Tuesday in protest of the government’s medical reform, amid growing anxiety among patients as medical professors of Seoul National University hospitals began an indefinite walkout. About 4 percent of the nation’s 36,371 community hospitals, excluding dental and Oriental medicine [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Volunteer Center recently operated a ‘Neighbor Vending Machine’ pop-up event themed around community communication at the 2024 Car-Free Jamsugyo Walkathon Festival, it announced on June 17. The concept allowed participants to write down messages or concerns they wanted to share with their neighbors, which would then dispense notes [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Police will launch an investigation into more than 1,000 doctors suspected of receiving illegal kickbacks from a drugmaker, the Seoul police chief said Monday. Police have confirmed circumstances suggesting that the doctors received kickbacks in cash and other rewards, ranging from several million won to tens of millions of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors at hospitals affiliated with Seoul National University (SNU) began an indefinite walkout on Monday, according to a group of patients, with about 55 percent of the professors expected to join the move against the government’s medical reform. A total of 529 professors at the four hospitals — [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis by the General Insurance Association of Korea has revealed that one out of every three disputed car-to-car accidents over the past three years involved lane changes, underscoring a significant source of contention as the summer vacation season approaches. The association examined approximately 130,000 cases reviewed by its [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A memorial altar set up for victims of the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush was moved to a new site Sunday from its original location outside Seoul City Hall. The altar, which commemorates the 159 people killed in a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood during Halloween weekend in 2022, [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The private data of some 2,900 South Korean customers was leaked after TAG Heuer, owned by LVMH, was hacked, according to an official at South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission on Sunday. The incident took place between 2019 and 2020, when the watchmaker renovated its website but came under [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – In a nationwide survey asking South Koreans to name the former president and business leader they most admire, Roh Moo-hyun and Hyundai’s founder Chung Ju-yung topped the respective lists, highlighting their enduring legacies. The poll by Gallup Korea, conducted between March 22 and April 5 with 1,777 respondents aged 13 [...]
BUAN, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The magnitude 4.8 earthquake that struck the city of Buan earlier this week has amplified anxieties across South Korea about the possibility of a more devastating seismic event, prompting many to take precautionary measures like assembling survival kits. With the memory of the destructive quakes in Gyeongju in 2016 and [...]