SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has found that higher income levels are strongly associated with longer, healthier lives in South Korea, with the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest nearing nine years. The research, conducted by a team led by Professor Yoon Seok-jun of Korea University’s College [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s employment and labor indicators for women have remained low among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past two decades due partly to the lack of adequate government support and sufficient jobs, a report showed Monday. According to the analysis report by the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Korean workers are unable to freely use their paid annual leave, according to a survey released on January 5th by Workplace Gapjil 119, a civic group advocating for employee rights. The survey, conducted in September 2024 by Global Research, polled 1,000 workers nationwide. Only 50.1% [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The state anti-corruption agency has asked the police to take over the execution of a warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, both sides said Monday, prompting protests from Yoon’s legal team and the police. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Constitutional Court plans to hold its first pretrial hearing on the impeachment trial of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Jan. 13, judicial officials said Monday. The court has informed the legal representatives of the National Assembly and the prime minister that it would hold the first preparatory hearing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is set to complete handing over all 179 bodies of the deadly Jeju Air plane crash victims to their families and relatives Monday, acting Interior Minister Ko Ki-dong said. Ko made the remark at a government response meeting, saying that search and recovery efforts at the crash [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s quarantine agency on Monday began accepting applications to find new homes for eight detection dogs relieved of their service duties. The program focuses on helping retired sniffer dogs, previously deployed at airports and seaports to detect unauthorized entry of livestock and agricultural goods, begin a new life [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – President Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal defense team on Monday filed complaints with the prosecution against the head of the state anti-corruption agency and 10 others over last week’s attempt to execute a warrant to detain the impeached president. An attempt by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual income gap between South Korea’s richest and poorest households has exceeded 200 million won for the first time, while the gap in their assets has grown to more than 1.5 billion won. As economic polarization continues to deepen, policy solutions have stalled, particularly after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An innovative childcare support program in Seoul offering 300,000 won monthly to grandparents caring for two-year-old children has revealed a striking pattern: maternal grandmothers comprise more than half of the participating grandparents. According to a policy review by the Seoul Foundation of Women and Family, maternal grandmothers account for 54% [...]