SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing concern, instances have emerged of South Korean college students using ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, to complete their coursework and tests. Universities, however, are being criticized for their apparent lack of effective countermeasures to address the issue. Seoul National University recently began discussions with the school’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the number of domestic drug users increasing, particularly among young people in their 20s and 30s, drug-smuggling channels and techniques are evolving in a more diverse and deliberate manner. South Korea’s customs agency disclosed a series of the latest drug-smuggling techniques when it announced a comprehensive plan to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a Vietnamese national seeking compensation from South Korea’s government after losing family members and suffering wounds when South Korean marines killed dozens of civilians in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The Seoul Central District Court’s ruling marks the first time [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will launch a metaverse version of the King Sejong Institute, a government-funded Korean language education brand, this year to help foreigners learn the language anytime and anywhere. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will operate the service jointly with [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — What helped Coupang Inc. to become the e-commerce giant that we know today was its same-day or next-day delivery service called Rocket Delivery. However, in-between orders and deliveries, there are various types of logistics technology that are utilized to streamline the logistics process and ensure that the right items [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Children raised by parents with higher incomes will earn higher incomes themselves, indicating that socioeconomic status may be inherited, a study showed Sundy. Lee Ji-eun, a senior researcher at the Korea Labor Institute, and Jeong Se-eun, an economics professor at Chungnam National University analyzed the Korea Labor & Income [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the first increase in public transportation fares in eight years, the issue of free access benefits to public transportation is resurfacing as a controversial topic. The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently decided to raise public transportation fares for the first time since June 2015. The city plans to raise [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of South Korean iPhone users lost Thursday in a lawsuit seeking compensation from Apple Inc. over allegations that the company purposely slowed the performance of older models to compel users to buy new ones. The Seoul Central District Court ruled against 9,851 owners of previous iPhone models without [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most people in cafes, offices and schools in South Korea kept wearing their face masks Monday, the first day of the lifting of a mandate for indoor places. Starting midnight, the government lifted most mandatory indoor mask-wearing rules after more than two years, except at hospitals, pharmacies and on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Friday they will build a state-of-the-art disaster prediction system with an aim to prevent large-scale disasters, such as the crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district last year. Under a set of measures announced by the National Police Agency (NPA), various programs utilizing new technology will be implemented [...]