SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A website that offers free 3D data for South Korean cultural heritage is facing malicious comments from Chinese online commentators. Chinese netizens have given one particular asset, Korean traditional houses known as “hanok,” a one-star rating on the Unreal Engine Marketplace, run by U.S. video game giant Epic Games [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases rose to over 15,000 on Tuesday as the country is considering further easing antivirus curbs to regain normalcy. The country reported 15,741 cases, including 27 imported cases, bringing the total caseload to 31,192,401, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Tuesday’s tally [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the steady increase in patients of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, the level of public understanding of related information remains low, a survey showed Monday. The survey conducted by a team led by Professor You Myoung-soon at Seoul National University of 1,000 men and women found that 39.1 [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy, provincial authorities and local residents will hold a festival in and around a naval base on the southern resort island of Jeju later this week to promote harmony among them after a period of conflict over its construction, the armed service said Monday. The festival, called the [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — With a number of colleges using government funds to provide breakfasts to students for 1,000 won (US$0.77), other students excluded from such benefits are feeling relatively deprived. Jongno Academy and the Korean Educational Development Institute data showed that 73.3 percent of last year’s high school graduates advanced to Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) – “Beggar chat rooms” are spreading on KakaoTalk’s open chat room platform amid the social mood that everything is rising except salaries. In these chat rooms, people exchange advice on extreme belt-tightening. For example, if someone asks in the beggar room whether they can afford a 4,500-won (US$3.36) Americano from [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 10,000 on Monday due mainly to fewer tests over the weekend as the country is considering further easing antivirus curbs to regain normalcy. The country reported 5,774 cases, including 23 imported cases, bringing the total caseload to 31,176,660, the Korea Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) —The use of the virtual world known as the metaverse has been proposed as a potential tool to alleviate the psychological strain on students subjected to school violence during police investigations, according to a recent publication titled “Police Investigation of School Violence Victims Using Metaverse,” featured in the journal Police [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Debt among those in their 20s and 30s jumped more than 27 percent over the past three years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, indicating they suffered financial difficulties due to rising home prices and an economic slowdown, central bank data showed Sunday. In the fourth quarter of 2022, overall [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases remained above 10,000 for the fifth consecutive day Saturday amid eased virus curbs. The country reported 14,812 cases, including 35 imported cases, bringing the total caseload to 31,157,272, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The tally marks an increase from 13,791 [...]