SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Study-abroad students from China are raising their voices about their home country’s zero-COVID policy. Recently, campus boards in Korea University and Chung-Ang University were posted with various anti-Chinese slogans like “CCP (Chinese Communist Party) OUT”, “Free China” and “It’s my duty.” Chinese students and residents on Wednesday, showed up [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 12 months into the implementation of the anti-stalking act, relevant criminal activities are taking on a more devious approach to evading punishment. The Korea Women’s Hot Line, a non-profit women’s rights activist group, reported a case in which a stalker continuously harassed a victim’s friend after finding [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Internet usage time among teenagers in South Korea has doubled since the pre-pandemic era, with the increase largely attributed to the spread of contactless modes of engagement, a report said Thursday. In the survey of 2,700 teenagers aged between 10 and 18 conducted by Gallup Korea, elementary and middle [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hangang Project Headquarters under the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will begin a project to revamp safety facilities set up on bicycle paths in Han River parks until 2024. First, the agency will set up artificial intelligence (AI)-powered CCTV cameras and feedback signs in all 10 Han [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Only four out of 10 South Korean children and teenagers think the country is a good place to live, a survey showed Thursday. According to the online survey conducted with the participation of 1,000 Koreans between 10 to 18 years of age by the nongovernment organization Save the Children, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell below 60,000 on Thursday amid lingering concerns over a virus resurgence during the cold winter months. The country reported 57,079 new COVID-19 infections, including 43 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 27,155,813, according to data from the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army has decided not to recognize Byun Hee-soo, a transgender soldier in her 20s who was found dead last year after being forcibly discharged from service, as having died in the line of duty, military authorities said Thursday. In a committee meeting held earlier in the day, the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea advanced 8.2 percent on-year in October as demand for travel and transportation services increased on eased COVID-19 restrictions, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 17.71 trillion won (US$13.5 billion) in October, compared with 16.3 trillion won tallied a year [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The income gap between the haves and have-nots in South Korea widened in 2021 amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The distribution ratio for disposable income, a key barometer of income equality, reached 5.96 last year, up from 5.85 the previous year, according to data from Statistics [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 30 percent of all YouTube videos about cancer are based on false information, a study showed Wednesday. A research team from the Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital conducted a study of 702 videos from 227 YouTube channels trying out fenbendazole, an anthelmintic for dogs, as an alternative medicine [...]