SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. has disclosed that it will temporarily suspend production at its Asan plant in South Chungcheong Province for two days on Monday to Tuesday due to difficulty in procuring automotive chips. Despite the production suspension, however, plant workers will still be paid their full wages, raising some [...]
DAEJEON, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed new technology that enables users to easily check with their bare eyes whether COVID-19 vaccines from companies such as Pfizer Inc. and Moderna that need to be stored at low temperature are safely distributed. Researchers from the state-run Korea Research Institute of [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With school attendance halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, obesity-related indexes such as the body mass index (BMI) for children and teenagers have worsened, a recent study found. A research team from the Samsung Medical Center conducted a study of 90 obesity patients in childhood and adolescence from 6 [...]
INCHEON, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Alarm bells are ringing for South Korea’s convenience stores as the Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced a plan to crack down on cigarette ads starting from July. Under the current Tobacco Business Act and the National Health Promotion Act, convenience stores are required to prevent their in-store [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of schools in India are introducing Korean as a regular course. The Korean Cultural Centre India reported that Greenway Modern School and 11 other schools in New Delhi began teaching the Korean language this semester to elementary and middle school students. What began with three schools [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The right to name the country’s first trade of Bitcoin and Ethereum has been made into a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and put up for auction. Korbit, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, produced two pieces of cryptoart with an NFT artist Nonamed and put them up on Foundation, an NFT [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Investment funds in South Korea that consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions are emerging as a hot trend in the nation’s financial industry. The number of financial products that are classified as equity ESG funds among domestic public offering funds as of Thursday totaled 36 [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is gearing up to support the nation’s gas station industry, which is facing serial closures due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and the growing popularity of eco-friendly vehicles. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy recently issued a notice concerning the outsourcing of a study on how [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. had started running Galaxy Fan Classes that provide a variety of educational and experience programs, including how to use the latest Galaxy smartphones, at its Digital Plaza stores nationwide. The classes are designed to evolve the Digital Plaza from a simple shopping space into a space [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A two-month long clash following a military coup d’etat between the Myanmarese military and protestors is leading many immigrants in South Korea to take action. Hay Man Hnin, a 32-year-old man who came to South Korea three years ago and recently completed a master’s program in paedology at a [...]