CHUNCHEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that a stepfather who nailed a window shut to stop his teenage stepson from opening it during winter did not commit emotional abuse, determining that the restriction was minimal and easily reversible. According to legal sources Sunday, the 51-year-old man, identified by his [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A controversy over overwork has erupted in South Korea after the death of a young employee at the popular bakery chain London Bagel Museum (known locally as Runbaemyu), with the victim’s family alleging that he worked excessive hours in the weeks leading up to his death. According to the family, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 70 percent of baby boomers living in the Seoul metropolitan area said they would be willing to relocate to regional areas if jobs at small and medium-sized enterprises were available, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Korea Economic Association (FKI). The survey, conducted in September by Mono [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea recorded about 23 billion won (US$166 million) in fraudulent unemployment benefit claims so far this year, with the government recovering only two-thirds of the amount, according to parliamentary data released Wednesday. The National Assembly Budget Office said in its 2026 budget analysis that as of August, authorities [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans say they do not trust the national pension system, according to a new survey released Wednesday by the Korea Employers Federation (KEF). In the poll of 1,007 adults conducted by Mono Research, 55.7 percent said they did not trust the National Pension Service, compared [...]
POHANG, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — One subcontracted worker died and three others were injured after inhaling toxic gas at POSCO’s Pohang steelworks on Wednesday morning, reviving criticism of what labor groups call South Korea’s “outsourced danger.” According to police and POSCO officials, the accident occurred around 9 a.m. at the stainless steel annealing and pickling [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans that remain economically inactive rose from a year earlier in 2025, amid a steady increase in the number of people who say they have no particular reason for not working, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 16.22 million individuals had remained economically inactive [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100 South Korean teenagers voluntarily confessed to online gambling and sought help through a police-led rehabilitation program in Daejeon over the past year, according to police data released Tuesday. The Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency said that between November last year and October this year, 109 students — including [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The price of stolen South Korean credit card information traded on the dark web has more than doubled over the past two years, reflecting rising demand among cybercriminals despite stronger global security measures, a new report found. According to cybersecurity firm NordVPN, data collected in May from its threat monitoring [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of Korean men who had abandoned their mixed-heritage children in the Philippines have begun reaching out to the mothers after a civic group posted their faces online, reigniting a long-running debate over privacy and accountability. The group, People Solving Child Support Problems—formerly known as “Bad Fathers”—said [...]