SUWON, Oct 1 (Korea Bizwire) –Gyeonggi Province announced on Friday its intention to implement a ‘crowd management system’ starting in November, in direct response to the tragic crowd incident that occurred during the Seoul Halloween celebration on October 29th last year. This crowd management system is designed to utilize data from mobile phone base stations [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Police have launched a probe into the suicide death of an elementary school teacher in Uijeongbu, just north of Seoul, for possible harassment by parents, nearly two years after his school reported the death merely as a fall, officials said Sunday. The Uijeongbu Police Station has recently opened a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A video showing a driver smoking a cigarette while refueling her car at a self-serve gas station has led the government to tighten safety measures. However, there’s currently no system in place to prevent smoking at gas stations. Gas stations aren’t even designated as smoke-free areas as per [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A set of memorials will be installed in commemoration of last year’s deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district on the occasion of the tragedy’s first anniversary next month, bereaved families said Friday. The crowd crush killed 159 people, many of them women in their 20s, on a narrow, [...]
SUWON, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) –During South Korea’s Chuseok holiday, there’s a big problem with people driving selfishly and breaking the rules to avoid traffic. They often use bus lanes or drive on the shoulder of the road illegally. To deal with this and also apprehend drunk drivers, the police use helicopters and undercover patrol [...]
CHEONGJU, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) –The number of diseases that can be spread by ticks and rats is increasing, and those traveling during the Chuseok holiday should be extra careful. It’s also important to be cautious about getting stung by bees, which can be very harmful. In the forested region of Chungcheongbuk-do, there has [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Offenders arrested for selling or buying drugs on the dark web swelled by almost 13 times over the past five years, a report from the National Police Agency showed Thursday. According to the report submitted to Rep. Cho Eun-hee of the ruling People Power Party, the number of people [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2,200 South Koreans died in the first eight months of this year without having a chance to reunite with their family members in North Korea after being separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, government data showed Thursday. A total of 2,226 people passed away in the January-August [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of babies born in South Korea in July hit a record low, dropping below 20,000 for the first time ever. This data comes from the July population trends report released by Statistics Korea on September 27. In July, there were 19,102 live births, marking a 6.7 percent decrease [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Heavy traffic began to build on major roads and highways across South Korea on Wednesday as people headed to their hometowns to celebrate the extended Chuseok holiday. Chuseok, which falls on Friday this year, is the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving during which people get together with family members [...]