SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s customs agency said Thursday that drug smugglers in 2022 tended to trade illicit substances in greater volume utilizing contact-free methods, namely mail and postal services. The number of drug smuggling cases involving volume that exceeded 1 kilogram came to 65 in 2022, soaring from 29 tallied a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the first increase in public transportation fares in eight years, the issue of free access benefits to public transportation is resurfacing as a controversial topic. The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently decided to raise public transportation fares for the first time since June 2015. The city plans to raise [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases rose to over 20,000 on Wednesday as the government eased indoor mask-wearing restrictions in an effort to fully restore pre-pandemic normalcy amid a recent overall downward trend. The country reported 20,420 new cases, including 28 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,197,066, according [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their 20s use different social media platforms based on their political sentiment, a survey showed Tuesday. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 2,214 people from 19 to 24 years of age, in which there were more progressives (52.5 percent) than conservatives (23.8 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of Korean women divers, known as “haenyeo,” from the east coast of South Korea are over 70 years of age, a survey showed Monday. The word haenyeo refers to women who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without breathing equipment. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases rose to around 20,000 on Tuesday as the government is working to fully restore pre-pandemic normalcy amid an overall downtrend. The country reported 19,629 new cases, including 31 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,176,646, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers has dropped after making it harder for seniors to keep their licenses, a study showed. According to an academic paper published by the Police Science Institute, the number of traffic accidents for elderly drivers over the age of 65 stood [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Monday lifted most mandatory indoor mask-wearing rules after more than two years amid a recent COVID-19 downtrend, with infections for the day falling to the lowest level in about seven months. The country reported 7,416 new cases, including 22 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most people in cafes, offices and schools in South Korea kept wearing their face masks Monday, the first day of the lifting of a mandate for indoor places. Starting midnight, the government lifted most mandatory indoor mask-wearing rules after more than two years, except at hospitals, pharmacies and on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Koreans talk about family online, they tend to share different types of information via social media channels, a government report said. The state-run Korean Institute for Healthy Family analyzed 26,994,344 data records uploaded on four social media channels from January 2017 to June 2022. In terms of [...]