SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog is expected to announce its opposition next month to the government’s proposal to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility below 14, officials said Sunday. Currently, children aged between 10 and 14 cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions and are instead sent [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases reached a 66-day high at over 41,000 on Saturday amid the spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant. The country reported 41,310 new COVID-19 infections, including 287 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,721,415, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases more than doubled in a week again on Friday to near 40,000 amid the fast spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant. The country added 38,882 new COVID-19 infections, including 261 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,680,142, the Korea Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Instances of workplace harassment have modestly decreased for the past three years after the implementation of a workplace anti-bullying law in 2019, a poll showed Friday, though the degree of abuse felt by the victims is still serious. According to the recent poll of 1,000 salaried workers by pollster [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of loans issued to young South Koreans from the non-banking financial sector is on the rise, with some being pushed into declaring bankruptcy. Rep. Jin Sun-mee of the Democratic Party shared a report from the Financial Supervisory Service that showed young South Koreans under the age of [...]
BUSAN, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Nursing assistants working at hospitals and clinics in the southeastern port city of Busan are suffering from poor working conditions, as they have to take personal leave to quarantine for COVID-19. Nursing assistants, in general, serve as assistants in patient care and diagnosis following the instructions of doctors or [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases more than doubled in a week to near 40,000 on Thursday, as the country has experienced a resurgence of infections amid the fast spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant. The country added 39,196 new COVID-19 infections, including 338 from overseas, bringing the [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders of seven religious orders in South Korea on Thursday urged the Constitutional Court to abolish the death penalty in their first joint opinion on the long-held dispute as the court was to hold an open hearing on the punishment. In the written opinion submitted to the court a [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A banner has been placed in front of the U.S. embassy building to protest the new U.S. ambassador to South Korea Philip Goldberg’s gender orientation. The banner contains expressions written both in Korean and English that slander the new ambassador, but is has yet to be taken down. The [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Young workers at major entertainment companies and fashion stylist agencies are facing a labor legislation loophole. The Ministry of Employment and Labor investigated the working conditions at two major entertainment companies and 10 fashion stylist agencies that have been in business with these companies. According to the ministry, the [...]