SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported fewer than 20,000 COVID-19 cases for the third consecutive day Saturday, with critical cases dropping to a 10-month low, amid the receding omicron wave. The country added 14,398 new infections, including 45 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,067,669, the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Friday sentenced a 49-year-old man to 22 years in prison for attempting to murder all three members of a neighboring family over a noise dispute. The man, whose identity was withheld, allegedly stormed into the family’s home on the third floor of an apartment building in [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a man to life in prison for sexually assaulting and killing a 20-month-old baby girl. The verdict raised a lower court’s 30-year prison term for the 30-year-old man, identified only by his surname Yang, charged with raping and killing the baby daughter of [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The office of President Yoon Suk-yeol is considering disclosing as much information as possible about a South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korea’s military near the western sea border in 2020, informed officials said Friday. The presidential National Security Office (NSO) is determined to disclose the preceding Moon [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported fewer than 20,000 COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day Friday as the pandemic’s grip on the country appears to be loosening. The country added 16,584 new infections, including 49 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,053,287, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A second group of investors in Terraform Labs’ troubled cryptocurrencies filed complaints Friday against its co-founders on charges of fraud. The company’s coins, TerraUSD and Luna, crashed earlier this month, causing huge losses for hundreds of thousands of investors. A total of 76 people participated in the latest legal [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Major card firm Hyundai Card Corp. said Friday its credit card users’ payments soared in April amid eased anti-virus restrictions. Hyundai Card said users spent a total of 8.69 trillion won (US$6.92 billion) for travel, flight, hotel and other reopening-related expenses last month, up 15 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL/YEONGJONGDO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Rhee Keun, a South Korean volunteer fighter in Ukraine, returned home Friday after sustaining knee injuries while in action. The Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, at around 7:30 a.m., about three months after he left for Ukraine to join the Russia-Ukraine war as a [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Inflation is resulting in higher lunch prices, prompting some to coin a new word “lunchflation” to describe the phenomenon. The Korea Consumer Agency reported that the price of “naemgnyeon,” cold buckwheat noodles served in various types of broth or mixed with spice, reached an average of 10,192 won as [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported fewer than 20,000 COVID-19 cases Thursday as the rapid spread of the omicron variant is under control. The country added 18,816 new infections, including 34 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,036,720, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The daily tally [...]