SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is quietly becoming more diverse. New census data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Data show that people with a migration background accounted for more than 5 percent of the country’s population in 2024 — a modest but meaningful increase in a nation long assumed to be [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean police have reassigned an investigator specializing in medical crimes to reexamine allegations that resident doctors at a major Seoul hospital received illicit kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, signaling renewed scrutiny of a case long criticized for lackluster enforcement. According to officials and reporting by Yonhap News Agency, the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Both the United States and China have quietly omitted references to the “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” from major national security documents released in recent weeks, raising speculation over whether the two most influential actors in nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang are recalibrating their approach. The omission in Washington was notable. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A sweeping shift in American national security priorities — from reasserting influence in the Western Hemisphere to elevating Taiwan’s defense and omitting North Korea’s denuclearization — is prompting fresh debate in Seoul over what the changes signal for South Korea’s security role in Asia. The White House on Thursday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has moved to close a long-criticized legal loophole that allowed parents who abandoned or failed to care for their children to later claim financial benefits after the child’s death. The National Assembly has passed an amendment to the National Pension Act that blocks such parents from receiving survivor [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification minister publicly criticized the United Nations Command (UNC) on Wednesday, revealing that it had recently barred a senior presidential security aide from entering the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), reviving long-standing tensions over the scope of the UNC’s authority. Speaking at a National Assembly hearing on legislation to expand [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Two senior Coupang executives sold tens of millions of won worth of company stock shortly after a massive data breach occurred — but before the company acknowledged the incident — raising concerns about potential insider trading. According to a Dec. 2 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), [...]
CHUNCHEON, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Public pressure for mandatory closed-circuit cameras in kindergarten classrooms is mounting in South Korea following a suspected child-abuse case in Chuncheon, but education authorities signaled caution on imposing sweeping surveillance requirements. Shin Gyeong-ho, superintendent of the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Office of Education, said Wednesday that the installation of CCTV [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A public petition opposing a potential ban on South Korea’s popular dawn delivery services surpassed 25,000 signatures on Thursday, one day before a government-labor-industry dialogue committee is set to meet for a third round of discussions on the issue. The petition, filed by a self-described working mother, argues that overnight [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has taken another step toward remaking itself as a global center of artificial intelligence. On Thursday, the government convened the first meeting of a new working group made up of officials and senior executives from Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Telecom and Naver Cloud. The mission: figure [...]