SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of drug offenders in South Korea surpassed the 20,000 mark for the second consecutive year in 2024, with people in their 20s and 30s accounting for over 60 percent of the total, data showed Sunday. Last year, a total of 23,022 people were apprehended for drug-related offenses, [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A surge of green algae in Daejeon’s three main rivers — the Gapcheon, Yudeungcheon, and Daejeoncheon — has sparked criticism from environmental groups, who argue the bloom is a direct result of large-scale dredging operations carried out in recent years. In a joint statement released Wednesday, the Green [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Firefighters on Tuesday extinguished a blaze that broke out at a building inside the Jogye Temple compound in central Seoul, with no casualties reported, officials said. The blaze was put out at 11:57 a.m. about an hour and a half after it began at the international conference hall on [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Comedian LeeKyung-gyu is being investigated by police for allegedly driving under the influence with someone else’s car earlier this week, officials said Monday. The 64-year-old veteran comedian reportedly drove the vehicle, which was the same model as his own, on Sunday after a valet mistakenly gave him the wrong [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — While the overall incidence of sexual harassment in South Korean workplaces has declined slightly, a new government report reveals a troubling surge in online abuse—a shift attributed to the rise in remote and hybrid work settings. According to a triennial survey released Monday by the Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities continued recovery operations Friday at a railway construction site in the city of Yongin after a heavy drilling rig toppled into a nearby apartment building. The accident occurred at 10:13 p.m. Thursday, when a drilling rig, which is a heavy construction machine used for boring into the ground, [...]
GWANGJU, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — President Lee Jae-myung emerged as the top choice in a nationwide mock presidential election held among South Korean youth, winning more than half of the votes cast by participants under the age of 18. The mock election, organized by Gwangju YMCA and the Youth Mock Voting Coalition, surveyed 17,466 [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As Lee Jae-myung steps into the South Korean presidency, he inherits a nation weighed down by global headwinds and domestic fatigue. Confronted by a trade war brewing across the Pacific and an economy teetering on stagnation, the former human rights lawyer-turned-political brawler is shifting into the role of crisis manager [...]
JEJU, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has reported its first confirmed case of Zika virus infection this year, health officials announced Monday, after a patient tested positive following travel to Southeast Asia. According to the Jeju provincial government, a man in his 40s—identified only as Mr. A—was diagnosed with Zika virus on May [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The military said Monday it is in talks with the United States over ways to receive surveillance support, as the Navy grounded around a dozen patrol aircraft in safety measures following a fatal crash last week. On Thursday, a Navy P-3CK patrol plane crashed on a mountain in Pohang, [...]