SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An arrest warrant was issued Saturday for an employee of Woori Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial banks, suspected of embezzling more than 60 billion won (US$47 million). The Seoul Central District Court issued the warrant for the employee, whose identity was withheld, ruling that the suspect posed [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases remained in the 50,000s for the second straight day on Friday ahead of next week’s lifting of the outdoor mask mandate. The country reported 50,568 new COVID-19 infections, including 30 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 17,194,616, the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. Navy reservist of Korean descent has reunited with his younger sister here 17 years after their separation, thanks to help from his fellow South Korean soldiers following an allied military training, the Army said Friday. Lt. Man H. Watson, a Korean American adoptee, had a tearful reunion [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The surviving family of a South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean soldiers in 2020 filed a lawsuit Friday seeking compensation from Pyongyang for psychological pain due to the fatal incident. In September 2020, North Korea fatally shot the 47-year-old official, who was adrift on its side of [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans on Friday welcomed the government’s decision to lift the outdoor mask mandate, voicing hopes for a complete return to maskless normalcy, but some remain wary about lingering COVID-19 infection risks. Starting Monday, mask wearing will no longer be mandatory in outdoor places, except when people attend gatherings [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — One in five South Korean youths don’t believe that effort leads to success, having low regard for the country’s social fairness, a report showed Thursday. A 2018 World Values Survey showed that 20.8 percent of 1,200 young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 did not believe that [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers bought more liquor and cigarettes from convenience stores last year, data showed Thursday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) collected statistical data from 60,000 middle and high school students, in which their level of access to cigarettes grew from 67 percent to 74.8 percent and liquor [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Law school students at Seoul National University (SNU) have helped Pakistani nationals facing the risk of honor killing acquire refugee status in South Korea. The Seoul High Court recently ruled against the Korea Immigration Office’s earlier decision not to recognize the Pakistani family as refugees. The Pakistani father has [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Around midnight on Tuesday, Park Ji-young, a 30-year-old office worker, was exasperated after wasting nearly an hour trying to get a taxi from the central Seoul business district of Gwanghwamun to her home in Dangsan, a neighborhood not far away. She tried every option — tapping into all kinds [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases went down to fewer than 60,000 on Thursday as most of the country’s virus restrictions have been lifted amid the slowdown of the omicron wave. The country added 57,464 new COVID-19 infections, including 21 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 17,144,065, [...]