SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The family of the late actress Kim Sae-ron on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency against actor Kim Soo-hyun, accusing him of violating the Child Welfare Act and making false accusations. Bu Ji-seok, the family’s legal representative, discussed this latest legal action during a press [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two disability rights activists affiliated with the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) underwent a pretrial detention hearing on Monday after staging a 15-day rooftop protest atop a Catholic cathedral in Seoul’s Hyehwa-dong neighborhood. They were arrested earlier this month on charges of violating assembly laws after descending voluntarily from the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo visited a national cemetery honoring victims of a 1980 pro-democracy uprising Friday as the first stop of his election campaign for the June election but was met with protests. Han traveled to the May 18th National Cemetery in Gwangju, 357 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Ryu Young-sang, chief executive officer (CEO) of SK Telecom Co., said Wednesday the company is preparing for the worst-case scenario that a recent cyberattack may have leaked the universal subscriber identity module (USIM) data of all 25 million subscribers. “In the worst-case scenario, we are bracing for it,” Ryu [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) on Wednesday advised its troops and employees subscribed to SK Telecom Co. to take safety measures following a major cyberattack at South Korea’s biggest mobile carrier. In a post titled “SK Telecom Breach Cyber Threat Advisory” updated on its website, the USFK warned of [...]
As non-regular workers fall further behind in wages, benefits, and protections, a growing segment of the workforce risks being left out of the country’s economic future. SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea’s rapidly changing labor market, a widening wage chasm is sending a sobering message: for non-regular workers, the dream of financial parity [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A special-ed student attacked people with a weapon at a high school in Cheongju on Monday, injuring seven people, including the principal and himself, officials said. The attack happened around 8:40 a.m. in the city some 110 kilometers south of Seoul, when the second-grade high school student, [...]
GWANGJU, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The recorded message comes before every call now: “This call will be recorded from this point onward.” It was supposed to make things better. It hasn’t. At the Seo District Office in Gwangju, where municipal workers answer hundreds of citizen complaints each week, the voices on the other end of [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jae-myung’s story begins not in a seat of power, but on a factory floor. As a boy in Seongnam, he inhaled toxic fumes while laboring in industrial plants, lost his sense of smell, and suffered a permanent arm injury — all to help his family scrape by. Now, with [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — For a man in his twenties, a single desperate loan marked the start of a brutal spiral. Borrowing 200,000 won with the promise to repay double just a week later, he soon found himself crushed by mounting debts. When relentless collectors showed up at his daughter’s kindergarten, he saw no [...]