SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed above 70,000 for the third straight day Thursday amid lingering concerns of another surge as the government mulls easing the indoor mask mandate. The country reported 70,154 new COVID-19 infections, including 38 from overseas, bringing the total to 27,995,726, the Korea Disease Control [...]
DAEGU, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A controversy broke out after several residents in the southeastern city of Daegu announced they would stage a pork-eating event near the construction site of a mosque. The anti-mosque committee in Buk Ward in Daegu said that will hold an “end-of-year party” 50 or 60 meters away from the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 3,300 people died “lonely deaths” in South Korea last year, continuing an increase that has been ongoing over the past five years, data showed Wednesday. According to the report released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, there were 3,378 solitary deaths in 2021, which was 40 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior couples living together have higher satisfaction in life than those living with their children or alone, a recent study showed. 52.9 percent of senior couples were “satisfied” with their lives, followed by 47.3 percent of seniors living with their children and 42.6 percent of those living alone in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed above 80,000 for the second straight day Wednesday amid lingering concerns of another surge as the government mulls easing the indoor mask mandate. The country reported 84,571 new COVID-19 infections, including 73 from overseas, bringing the total to 27,925,572, the Korea Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10,000 illegal immigrants left South Korea through a crackdown and the voluntary departure program in October and November, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday. The government has resumed its crackdown on foreigners staying or working illegally here since October after a pause due to COVID-19, the ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added jobs for the 21st straight month in November, but the growth continued to slow for the sixth month in a row amid the central bank’s aggressive monetary tightening, government data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people stood at 28.4 million last month, up some 626,000 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A teenage survivor of the deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood has been found dead in an apparent suicide, police said Thursday. Police found the high schooler dead at an accommodation in western Seoul at 11:40 p.m. on Monday while searching the area following a report from his [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are growing frustrated with the rapidly increasing cost of heating their homes. Home heating costs jumped from 65.23 won per Mcal in March to 89.88 won last month, an increase of 37.8 percent in just eight months, according to the state-run Korea District Heating Corp. Citizens are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The pediatrics departments at major general hospitals in Seoul received fewer than necessary medical resident applications this year. Among Seoul’s “big 5″ hospitals, only Asan Medical Center was able to fill enough seats for first-year medical residents at the pediatrics department next year, according to industry sources. The pediatrics [...]