SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed over 10,000 for the fourth straight day Friday amid eased COVID-19 virus curbs, with health authorities mulling further easing antivirus measures. The country reported 10,335 new COVID-19 infections, including 10 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,615,522, according to the Korea [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 60 percent of South Koreans are against the government’s plan to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor on its own without involving Japanese firms, a poll showed Friday. In the poll of 1,002 adults conducted by Gallup Korea on Wednesday and Thursday, 59 percent said they oppose [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of car accidents involving senior drivers going the wrong way on expressways or running into pedestrians is calling for a government response. Last Wednesday, some 20 people waiting in lines to cast ballots for a local agricultural cooperative head in the southwestern county of Sunchang were run [...]
SUWON, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a drop in the school-age population, more teachers are being put on standby even after passing the teacher certification examination. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said that 47 people passed the teacher employment exam for kindergartens in the Gyeonggi area this year. However, none of them were assigned [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The once sought-after job of working as a government employee is losing popularity due to stagnant wages and an overhaul of the pension system. The Ministry of Personnel Management recently received applications for the state exam to recruit grade 9 public servants. A total of 121,526 people applied for [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the time taken to transport patients to the hospital following emergency calls has increased significantly. The National Fire Agency reported that its emergency rescue squad transported patients in 1.99 million cases last year, an increase of 7.3 percent from 2019. The duration [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a new school year underway, the number of parents buying audio recording devices for their children is increasing sharply as a way to punish offenders and collect evidence in cases of school violence. According to Naver DataLab, the monthly shopping click index for voice recorders hit a one-year [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A long-standing dispute over the construction of a mosque in Daehyeon-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu has reportedly escalated, with locals suspected of spreading animal oil in an alleyway near the temple site. The conflict, which has been ongoing for three years, has seen tensions between the mosque’s owner and residents opposed [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Low-income earners spent more on lottery tickets last year than in 2021, data showed Wednesday. Households with more than one household member across the country spent an average of 703 won buying lottery tickets each month, up by 1.4 percent from the previous year, according to the data from [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — While women working in the South Korean IT industry are paid more than in other fields, the wage gap between genders persists. According to corporate tracker Korea CXO Institute, women in the IT industry make around 89.3 million won (US$67,550) each year, the highest among all sectors. They were [...]