SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s technology trade reached the second-highest tally ever of US$29.9 billion in 2020, down 5.5 percent from the previous year, amid the global pandemic, government data showed Friday. The technology trade refers to the country’s international technology transactions, such as the use of patents, licenses and technical services, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans have no interest in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, a survey showed Friday. Gallup Korea polled 1,002 South Korean adults from Tuesday to Thursday on their thoughts on the Feb. 4-20 Winter Games in the Chinese capital. And 65 percent said they were not [...]
Jeju, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — llegal transactions of QR codes given out free of charge by Jeju provincial government for making reservations for tourist programs on Mount Halla, the southern island’s iconic volcanic peak, have brought the provincial government to take legal action, only to find out there is nothing it can do at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans attending universities in Northeast China are giving up their enrollment after being denied entry to the country for two years. The South Korean Consulate General in Shenyang and an association of Korean students from Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in China said that local universities in these [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Women living alone tend to remain alone longer than their male counterparts, allocating a significant amount of time to self-management and resting. The Korea Women’s Development Institute, based on an analysis of a 2019 study conducted by Statistics Korea, reported that women living alone sleep for an average of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Riding high on the golf boom in the COVID-19 era, some South Korean public golf courses have pushed up their green fees excessively, stirring up resentment among golfers. According to the Korea Leisure Industry Institute, the number of users of golf courses stood at 46.7 million in 2020, up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Glovis Co., a logistics unit of Hyundai Motor Group, said Thursday the launch of ‘Auto Bell,’ an online used car transaction platform designed to connect used car dealers with customers. To establish a reliable dealer network as well as to prevent false advertising, the company plans to check [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Public voices are growing in support of a ‘post-construction sale system’ after fraudulent construction was pointed out as the cause of the partial apartment building collapse in Gwangju last week. Major online real estate communities have recently been flooded with a large number of comments supporting the introduction of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Online game developer Smilegate Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it had established datasets for hateful online comments and speech through its artificial intelligence (AI) center. Alarmed by the sharp increase in hate expressions in online spaces, Smilegate’s AI center established datasets for hateful online comments and speech as a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of cases of animal abandonment reported in South Korea has dropped after COVID-19 kept pets and their owners indoors. The Korean Animal Welfare Association reported Wednesday that there were 116,984 reported cases of animal abandonment registered with the animal protection management system last year, which was 9.1 [...]