SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Police wrapped up a monthslong investigation Friday into the deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood last year, with 23 government officials referred to the prosecution on fatal professional negligence and other charges. The special police investigation team concluded the crowd crush was a “man-made” disaster caused by authorities’ [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean employees working fewer than 15 hours a week reached a new high last year, a statistics agency said Thursday. Statistics Korea reported that there were 1,577,000 people working between one and 14 hours per week last year, an increase of 65,000 people from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app KakaoTalk, are joining the labor union to protest the company’s recent announcement that all employees should come to the office for work, instead of working from home. The members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Kakao [...]
TAEBAEK, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An elderly person in his late 60s visited the administrative welfare center in Taebaek, Gangwon Province on Tuesday. He carried a 20-kilogram liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder. “This is a piggy bank that I made for myself. The amount of money I saved is not much but I hope [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have opened an investigation into an influencer with about 200,000 followers on Instagram who is alleged to have sold fake Dyson hair dryers online, officials said Thursday. The Seoul Jungbu Police Station said it is investigating an influencer surnamed Kim, who was accused of violating trademark laws by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to the lowest Thursday tally in 11 weeks, with rising imported cases putting health authorities on high alert. The country reported 43,953 new COVID-19 infections, including 135 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 29,698,043, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers in the southern port city of Busan have the best work-life balance in South Korea, a government survey showed Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the nation’s work-life balance index averaged 54.7 out of a possible 100 points last year, up 1.3 points from a [...]
SUWON, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province’s fire department said Wednesday it had created a new firefighting dispatch ringtone based on the judgment that existing ringtones designed to inform firefighters about the occurrence of emergency situations were a source of stress. When reports are received by the emergency control center, they are classified into [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A former employee of dental implant maker Osstem Implant Co. was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for embezzling company funds worth 221.5 billion won (US$178.1 million). The Seoul Southern District Court also ordered the former employee, known by his surname Lee, to forfeit 115.2 billion won and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to the lowest Wednesday tally in 11 weeks, while imported cases remained high. The country reported 54,343 new COVID-19 infections, including 120 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 29,654,090, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The tally marked [...]