SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol has extended an invitation to a group of Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima during the upcoming Chuseok holiday, a presidential official said Saturday. “President Yoon has invited Korean atomic bomb victims to South Korea for the Chuseok holiday,” the official told [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) —A tragic incident unfolded as an elementary school teacher lost her life after falling from the rooftop of an apartment building. According to the Goyang Police Station in Gyeonggi Province, Ms. A, a teacher in her late 30s, fell to her demise from the 28th floor of an apartment complex [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 out of every 10 South Koreans are opposed to Japan’s release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, a public opinion poll showed Friday. The survey conducted on 1,000 South Korean adults on Tuesday and Wednesday by Research View showed 72.4 percent [...]
CHANGWON, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing public concerns about Japan’s release of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, South Gyeongnsang provincial government has taken a unique approach to reassure its residents about the safety of the water supply through a YouTube broadcast. This broadcast goes beyond being a mere live [...]
JEJU, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Firefighters on Jeju Island successfully conducted a rescue operation when a group of cows became stranded in a retention basin due to heavy rainfall. The Jeju Province Fire Safety Headquarters on Wednesday received a notification about a flooded retention basin in Seogwipo, which resulted in six cows becoming isolated [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon has ordered correctional institutions to inspect their execution facilities for proper maintenance, sources said Wednesday. Han made the instruction last week to four correctional institutions that house execution facilities, including the Seoul and Busan Detention Centers, and the Daegu and Daejeon Correctional Institutions, the legal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of deaths caused by serious industrial accidents at workplaces in the first half of the year dropped nearly 10 percent from a year ago, a government report said Wednesday. A total of 289 workers died from January to June, marking a drop of 9.1 percent, or 29 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The population of kindergarten to high-school students shrank by nearly 100,000 this year from a year earlier, extending its falling streak to the 18th year, the education ministry said Wednesday. The number of students at the country’s kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools nationwide amounted to slightly over [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s total births and fertility rate fell to record lows in 2022, data showed Wednesday, signaling a red alarm on the growth potential of Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Only 249,000 babies were born in 2022, down 11,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea grapples with a series of “don’t-ask-why” crimes targeting random people, one common trait stands out among the suspects behind the recent killings. They showed signs of being “reclusive loners,” largely shut out from outside contact for months and, in some cases, even years. In May, Jung [...]