SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea approaches the introduction of artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks, a significant number of teachers have expressed reservations about the challenges of maintaining digital equipment and the risks of excessive device usage among students, according to a recent survey. The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union announced on March [...]
INCHEON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTuber in his 40s has been detained on suspicions of installing spy cameras at polling stations in Incheon, west of Seoul, where early voting will take place ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections, police said Friday. The man is suspected of breaking into two early voting polling [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Former professional baseball player Oh Jae-won arrested last week on drug charges was transferred to the prosecution Friday for further investigation and a possible indictment, police said. The Seoul Gangnam Police Station said it sent Oh’s case to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office on charges of illegal drug [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A staggering 43 percent of patients who visited emergency rooms after attempting suicide in South Korea last year were under 30 years old, including teenagers and those in their 20s, according to a government survey released on Tuesday. The “2023 Survey on Suicide” by the Ministry of Health and Welfare [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court sentenced a 43-year-old man to one year in prison on charges of leaving a weapon in front of ruling party leader Han Dong-hoon’s home in southern Seoul last year while he was serving as justice minister. The man, only known by his surname Hong, has been [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has found that one out of every two office workers in South Korea can be characterized as “quiet quitters” – employees who have mentally checked out but remain on the payroll, doing only the bare minimum required. The survey of 1,097 office workers by HR tech company [...]
JEONJU, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Ask Im Chung-sik, a 48-year-old resident of Jeonju, if he considers himself a “youth,” and his answer typifies the blurred boundaries around the definition. “Does that even matter at my age?” replied Im, who is approaching the “ji-cheon-myeong” – the traditional age at 49 when one is said to gain [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday urged each party and candidate to refrain from hate speech ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections. Song Doo-hwan, chairman of the commission, said in a statement that state institutions, such as the National Election Commission, should declare their [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Wednesday appealed to defiant junior doctors to come forward for talks with the government, as a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors has crippled major hospitals for more than five weeks. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo urged defiant trainee doctors to “form a responsible delegation [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low for any January this year, data showed Wednesday, deepening woes about the country’s demographic picture due to rapid aging and ultra-low birth rate. A total of 21,442 babies were born in January 2024, down 7.7 percent [...]