SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — About 40 percent of parcel delivery drivers in South Korea work more than 14 hours a day during peak seasons, government data showed Tuesday. The labor ministry released its study on the work conditions and health of couriers following a recent series of deaths of workers apparently from overwork. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean carmakers’ sales fell 5 percent last month from a year earlier as the coronavirus outbreak continued to sap demand around the globe, industry data showed Tuesday. The five carmakers in South Korea — Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., GM Korea Co., Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to take a toll on public schools, imposing pressure on local daycare centers and children’s welfare facilities. A rising number of infections in Seoul resulted in daycare centers being asked to shut down on Nov. 27. However, many centers continue to open at least [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — With the end of the coronavirus pandemic still a distant hope, a recent study has reported that 5 in 100 South Koreans are suffering from depression. A research team from Seoul’s Asan Medical Center said Monday the study results of a big data analysis of 1 million patients compiled [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., a South Korean manufacturer of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, announced Monday that Right Route, an eco-friendly social enterprise sponsored by the company, has developed a high-end fabric by upcycling old EV battery separators. Lithium-ion battery separators are a core component of EV batteries, smartphones and other [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean babies born in 2019 are expected to live more than 83 years, data showed Tuesday, amid improved public awareness about health and better medical systems. Life expectancy at birth averaged 83.3 years last year, six months longer than a year earlier, according to the data compiled by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite stronger social distancing measures being rolled out in South Korea resulting from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, local consumers are showing signs of no panic buying with sales at online shopping malls growing at a marginal rate. Shinsegae Co.’s integrated online shopping mall SSG.COM said that its [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) service that automatically converts speech, meeting notes and interviews into text. Naver launched the Clova Note service on Sunday, which creates conservation-styled text if users upload voice files or directly record their voices. After installing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea held a completion ceremony Monday for the 2nd ‘Starbucks Restart Program,’ a training program designed to support the comeback of failed small business owners. For a group of failed small business owners who had no option but to shut down their businesses, Starbucks offered training twice in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court has ruled in favor of a non-religious conscientious objector who was indicted for dodging the draft. The Uijeongbu District Court said Monday that it overturned a lower court ruling in the case of a man who was indicted for violation of the nation’s military service law. [...]