SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign workers in South Korea surpassed 1.1 million in 2025 to reach a record high, with the proportion of employed international students also sharply up, a survey showed Thursday. As of May, there were 1.69 million foreigners aged 15 or older residing in Korea, up 8.4 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign visitors to South Korea are increasingly favoring “value-for-money” shopping aligned with personal tastes, signaling a shift away from the high-end, big-ticket purchases that once dominated tourist consumption, according to new data released by the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). An analysis of foreign credit card transactions from 2018 through September [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans want to remain in their homes or local communities as they age or face illness, but many say the country’s local care systems are not prepared to support that preference, according to a new nationwide survey released Tuesday. The survey of 1,500 adults, conducted earlier this month [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has begun real-world testing of a new solar-generating window film designed to turn high-rise buildings into power producers, marking a potential breakthrough for urban renewable energy. Korea Southern Power (KOSPO) said Tuesday it has launched a demonstration project with the Korea Institute of Materials Science to evaluate [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national space agency said Tuesday it is exploring the use of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket to launch the country’s first Mars payload as early as 2030, part of a broader strategy to accelerate its participation in international deep-space exploration. At a briefing in Seoul, the Korea Aerospace Administration [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A surge of South Koreans are scrambling to determine whether their personal information is circulating on the dark web following Coupang’s massive data leak, newly released government data shows. According to figures submitted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) to Rep. Lee Jeong-heon of the Democratic Party, users [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Ministry of Justice said Monday it has introduced an artificial intelligence–based behavior analysis system at the National Forensic Psychiatric Hospital to better identify early signs of violent or self-harming behavior among patients undergoing compulsory treatment. The system monitors individuals with severe mental illness in real time, detecting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of consumers are preparing to take legal action in the United States against Coupang Inc. over a massive data breach that exposed personal information from nearly two-thirds of South Korea’s population, according to a Seoul-based law firm. Daeryun Law Firm LLC said Friday that its U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government is preparing to introduce a special law aimed at tightening safety rules at construction sites and imposing harsher penalties for fatal accidents, the country’s land minister said Friday, as the sector continues to grapple with a steady rise in deadly workplace incidents. Land Minister Kim Yun-duk [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s newly created media regulator said Friday it will open a transparency center next year to confront the spread of online disinformation, signaling an aggressive shift in how the government intends to police digital content. The announcement came as the Korea Media Communications Commission (KMCC) delivered its first [...]