SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — As the U.S. Supreme Court reignites abortion debate following its decision to overturn its 1973 abortion ruling known as Roe v. Wade, South Korea has yet to introduce legislation that enforces abortion rights. In South Korea, one can easily find advertisements about pregnancy interruptions on social media and portal [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 40 percent of teenagers from multicultural families enroll in university, raising concerns that they are falling into the ‘low-education’ trap, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Gender and Equality conducted a nationwide survey of 15,000 multicultural households, in which only 40.5 percent of teenagers (age 9 to [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The university district of Shinchon and Seogyo-dong in western Seoul are rising as the new rendezvous point for foreigners living in the capital city, data showed Monday. Seoul’s city government, along with the Migration Research & Training Centre, studied foreigners who have lived in Seoul for more than 90 [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Protestant churches are going all-out to bring back Christians who stayed away from onsite worship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Laity Ministry Development Center of the New Eden Church in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province and various parishes are visiting churchgoers’ homes and giving them handwritten letters, bible [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s construction equipment maker Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co. has launched a drive to develop a hydrogen combustion engine for use in commercial vehicles, buses and construction machinery. The company announced that it was selected as the lead agency for the development of hydrogen engine systems and storage and [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans reside in cities covering less than a fifth of the national land, data showed Monday. The land area designated as special purpose areas by the National Land Planning and Utilization Act totaled 106,207 ㎢, According to the data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. is applying advanced treatment methods to the water it uses throughout its entire production process as part of efforts to protect the environment, the company said. The electronics parts maker purifies the water used at its Suwon plant in three stages. It manages the contaminant density [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — IT companies that introduced so-called ‘workation’ policies are planning for their expansion due to popular demand. Line Plus Corp., a mobile service subsidiary of South Korea’s leading internet portal Naver Corp., introduced Line Hybrid Work 1.0 which allows staff members to work remotely from any location in the country. [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since the pandemic has changed how we work, more than half of all workers believe that it has increased productivity. Accounting firm EY Hanyoung conducted a survey of 17,000 individuals including the management staff and employees from some 1,500 companies in 22 countries, in which 64 percent of [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean oil refiners are enjoying a boom time amid sky-high oil prices. Against this backdrop, the political community is now in talks to limit profits by introducing a so-called windfall profits tax. Rep. Park Hong-keun, floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), said that he would [...]