SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s coronavirus vaccine drive kicks off, hopes are rising for a rapid return to normal life. However, migrant workers, often excluded from the government’s quarantine policies, are more concerned than they are excited for the vaccine. “We haven’t heard about any vaccination plans for migrant workers yet,” said Udaya [...]
SACHEON, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will showcase a prototype of the country’s first indigenous fighter jet in April, the arms procurement agency has said. Jung Kwang-sun, heading the KF-X program at the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, said the planned rollout event will be a “landmark moment” for the country and the aerospace [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The portion of male births of the total newborns in South Korea declined to a record low last year, data showed Monday, in the latest sign that traditional preference for male children has waned. The ratio of baby boys to every 100 newborn girls came to 104.9 last year, [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — All Koreans know that March 1, 1919, marked the start of a nationwide independence movement against Japanese colonial rule. What most people don’t know is that an American businessman in Seoul — with the unintended help of his wife and newborn son — made sure the world found out [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Germany saw its imports decline last year due to the economic slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the country’s imports from South Korea turned out to have increased. The Frankfurt office of the state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency analyzed data from 2020 released by the Federal Statistical Office [...]
BUSAN, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A tech startup in the southeastern port city of Busan is drawing attention after it launched a maritime drone delivery business, a first in South Korea. Marine Drone Tech, a specialist in drone technologies, is the first company in the country to receive a registration certificate to operate a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Assembly has approved a law revision that would step up the punishment for perpetrators of fatal child abuse in the wake of a series of recent deaths of abused children. The bill to revise the act on child abuse crimes passed a plenary National Assembly session Friday. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly of South Korea has passed a parliamentary resolution denouncing the recent military coup in Myanmar, calling it a “serious defiance of democracy.” The resolution, approved with bipartisan support in the National Assembly’s full-floor voting session held Friday, urged Myanmar’s military leaders to immediately release detained civilian [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of single-use plastic waste is increasing at a remarkable pace as the outbreak of the coronavirus has led to exponential growth in food deliveries and online shopping. The more plastics are used, the more important it is to dispose of them separately. In particular, the separate disposal [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean kindergartens and elementary schools have started to use robots for education. Voice of Korea, Pyongyang’s state-run radio station, posted a video on its official website on Thursday in which students were seen speaking to a robot while looking up at the robot’s ‘face’, or scanning cards with the [...]