BUSAN, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jin-suk, a labor activist well known for her 309-day sit-in protest atop a giant shipyard crane 10 years ago, was symbolically reinstated to her company Friday, 37 years after she was fired due to union activities. Kim attended the ceremony for her honorary reinstatement and retirement at HJ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Women working in the field of web-based platforms earn less than 80 percent of what men typically earn for similar work, a government report said Thursday. The state-run Korea Employment Information Service conducted a survey of 1,023 web-based platform workers in September and October of last year, which showed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A constitutional appeal has been filed against the Immigration Control Act that allows only those from eight English-speaking countries to work as native English instructors in South Korea, officials said Friday. Migrants Center Friend, an immigrant rights’ group, filed the petition after a Ugandan was denied a visa to [...]
SUWON, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Suwon in Gyeonggi Province has announced a plan to establish and implement a ‘smart safety service,’ including a drowsy driving detection system for buses operating in regular lanes from next month. The smart safety service, which includes the emergency rescue function in the event of accidents, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Ukrainians living in South Korea have voiced frustration and anxieties after Russia attacked their homeland in defiance of global warnings and pleas for a peaceful resolution, praying for the safety of their families back home. Various news articles and posts about the Russian invasion have made the rounds on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases stayed above 170,000 for the second consecutive day Thursday amid the fast spread of the highly contagious omicron variant across the country. The country reported 170,016 new COVID-19 infections, including 169,846 local cases, raising the total caseload to 2,499,188, according to the Korea Disease [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – COVID-19 accounted for one in five to six hospital transfers by the 119 emergency medical service in Seoul last year, the city government said Thursday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters, there were a total of 551,647 emergency ambulance dispatches in the capital last year and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korean health authorities now imposing stricter qualifications for receiving a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test while lifting self-quarantine rules, an increasing number of people are finding themselves in the ‘gray area’ between those suspected of or infected with coronavirus. As people can no longer receive tests at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The controversy over parking inside private property, which has been a major source of inconvenience in everyday life, is being neglected without proper efforts to come up with a solution simply because there are no ‘grounds’ to execute administrative measures or enforcement. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission reported [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean household income rose for the second quarter in a row in the fourth quarter of last year thanks to an economic recovery amid eased antivirus curbs, data showed Thursday. The average household earned 4.64 million won (US$3,876) per month in the October-December period, up 6.4 percent from [...]