SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A 12-year-old elementary school student will make her voice heard this week in one of South Korea’s most consequential legal battles over the government’s response to climate change. Han Je-ah, a sixth grader from Seoul, will address the Constitutional Court in person on May 21 during the final hearing for [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – As issues of violated authority plague the teaching profession in South Korea, only about one in five educators say they would choose the same career path if given another chance at life, according to a recent survey. The Korean Federation of Teachers’ Associations polled 11,320 teachers across kindergartens, elementary schools, [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – While official statistics appear to show South Korea’s minimum wage closing in on the average for developed economies, experts argue this effect is an illusion stemming from how the country calculates average wages compared to international standards. According to a report on minimum wage trends and global comparisons released on [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The customs agency said Tuesday it has seized nearly 1,500 kilograms of drugs before they entered South Korea over the past two years. A total of 1,417 kg of drugs were seized at the border between May 2022, when President Yoon Suk Yeol took office, and last month, according [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean antitrust regulator said Monday it signed agreements with the Chinese retail platforms AliExpress and Temu meant to strive to prevent their selling of harmful products and better protect consumers. The move came as the customs agency found that some of the products sold on AliExpress, owned [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo said Monday that junior doctors may face a one-year delay in getting medical fellowships unless they return to work by the end of this week. The prolonged walkouts by some 12,000 trainee doctors, who have left their worksites since Feb. 20 in protest [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – More than one in three young dual-income married couples in South Korea are “double income, no kids” households, known as DINKs, according to a recent study by the Korea Labor Institute. The institute’s report on “Changes in Characteristics of Childless Couples Over the Past Decade,” analyzing data from the Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As the healthcare crisis stemming from the mass resignation of resident doctors stretches into its third month, the South Korean government has decided to open the door for foreign physicians to fill vacancies, officials said on May 9. The move comes as the government braces for a potential prolonged disruption, [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical professors at major hospitals were set to take a day off Friday, the third of its kind in two weeks as they expressed fatigue from filling the void of trainee doctors who left their worksites in protest of the government’s medical reform. While fatigued medical professors take a [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Bracing for a prolonged shortage of medical personnel due to the collective resignation of thousands of resident physicians, the South Korean government plans to permit foreign doctors to practice medicine in the country, according to government officials and sources from medical circles. The move to introduce foreign doctors follows the [...]