SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — This week’s apparent suicide of a young elementary school teacher in Seoul has been roiling the local educational community, as the concerned school on Thursday denied numerous allegations surrounding her death. The teacher, known only as a 23-year-old woman in charge of first graders at Seoul Seoi Elementary School [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Marine Corps has launched a probe into the death of a soldier who was swept away by a torrent this week during search and rescue operations for victims of heavy monsoon rains, the armed service said Thursday, amid public outcry over poor safety measures for troops mobilized for [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery drivers of the food delivery app Baedal Minjok are frustrated with the company’s monsoon season promotion, claiming that the requirements are overly strict and primarily benefit the company. Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of Baedal Minjok, initiated a promotion for delivery workers on July 10, which will conclude [...]
JEJU, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of patients on the southern island of Jeju travel to other regions, including the Seoul metropolitan area, for medical treatment because the island lacks tertiary hospitals. An average of 14,200 Jeju residents per year underwent medical treatment on the mainland between 2012 and 2021, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost one-third of high school violence victims are exposed to violence on an almost daily basis, a state-run institute said Monday. According to a report released by the Korean Educational Development Institute, regional education offices nationwide conducted a survey last year involving 154,514 students from the fourth year of [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of young South Koreans preparing for exams for public jobs and professional licenses has fallen for the second year in a row, data showed Tuesday. Some 634,000 people out of 4.16 million economically inactive people aged 15-29 have been preparing for exams to land jobs this year, [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The welfare ministry said Tuesday nearly 12 percent of more than 2,100 undocumented babies nationwide were confirmed to have died. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said its probe found that 249 out of the 2,123 babies who were born between 2015 and 2022 but not registered with the [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In the domestic job market, the most popular job category turned out to be IT development, data showed Monday. According to an analysis of talent pool data by recruiting platform Saramin, the number of job offers in the first half of this year showed a 7.9 percent increase compared [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of abandoned schools is increasing even in the capital city of Seoul due to the declining school-age population, but renovating such facilities proves to be more challenging compared to other buildings. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, there are currently three unused abandoned schools in [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Drug detection dogs deployed at South Korea’s major airports and seaports will join efforts to crack down on drug use within the military. The Army Military Police on Thursday conducted a random drug inspection by deploying the Korea Customs Service’s drug detection dogs to two barracks in the greater [...]