SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean and foreign migrants fell to the lowest level in 18 years last year as the COVID-19 pandemic restricted cross-border movements by people, data showed Thursday. The number of international migrants, referring to those who stay for more than 90 days here, declined 347,000, or [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of elementary school parents near the presidential office has filed a petition asking police to take steps to safeguard their children from noise and other hazards from constant rallies around the top office. A series of rallies have been held near the new presidential office in Yongsan, [...]
INCHEON, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A beautiful event is going viral in which a group of citizens voluntarily worked together to remove liquor bottles that fell on the road from a truck. Last Monday afternoon, dozens of soju (distilled liquor) boxes loaded in a 1-ton truck fell on the road when the truck turned [...]
YONGIN, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A municipal government will launch a pilot project to prevent so-called smartphone zombies, or “smombies,” by completely blocking mobile data usage in school zones. The Yongin city government said Wednesday it had installed 120 special terminals to restrict smartphone functions in an area within 1.5 kilometers of the school [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases rose to over 40,000 for the first time in two months as the country has experienced a resurgence of infections amid the fast spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant. The country added 40,266 new COVID-19 infections, including 398 from overseas, bringing the [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. is being criticized for listing all of Mount Paektu’s Cheonji crater lake in northern North Korea as part of Chinese territory on its map application on iPhones, iPads and Macbooks. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a South Korean civic organization, said Tuesday that searching for [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the 16th consecutive month in June, but the pace of job growth slowed from a month earlier amid heightened economic uncertainty, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.49 million last month, up 841,000 from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean students studying abroad and their parents are taking the brunt of the weakening Korean won, as the home currency is hovering around the lowest level against the U.S. dollar in 13 years. After hitting a 13-year low of 1,301.8 won against the greenback on June 23, the [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of dosirak (Korean lunchbox) products such as dosirak boxes and thermal lunch boxes are growing as the number of people packing their own lunch is increasing due to high inflation. According to data from the online shopping mall Wemakeprice Inc., sales of dosirak products during the period from [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases surged to a two-month high of over 37,000 on Tuesday, driven by the spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant and deepening concerns over another virus wave. The country added 37,360 new COVID-19 infections, including 260 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to [...]