SEJONG, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added 628,000 jobs for wage workers in the second quarter of 2022 amid the recovery of the services and construction sectors amid eased COVID-19 restrictions, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 20.2 million in the April-June period, up from 19.57 tallied a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have discovered a way to predict the antibiotic functionality of peptides using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. A joint research team from the National Institute of Biological Resources and Dongguk University announced that it had developed a deep learning-based peptide detection model that can predict antibiotic functionality [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sejong National Arboretum in the administrative city of Sejong has set up fencing and a separate habitat to coexist with the local elk population. The arboretum has set up an 800-meter-long fence through a reed field and created a 20,000-square-meter habitat for elk. The fence has a gate [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday it has deployed the first “robot official” as part of its robot distribution service project. The robot has been tasked with delivering public documents and parcels throughout city hall and serving as guides for visitors. It is capable of riding elevators autonomously. It [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea reached yet another record-low level in September, data showed Wednesday, leading to an overall decrease in the country’s population. A total of 21,885 babies were born in September, down 0.1 percent from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics [...]
JEJU, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Scores of relics of imperial Japan, which occupied the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945, still remain scattered here and there on Jeju Island. According to an investigation by the Jeju History and Culture Promotion Agency, a total of 176 stone markers engraved with the Japanese name of the era still [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean football star Son Heung-min appeared on the first page of the caricature of the captains posted by FIFA on social media to celebrate the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. FIFA posted on Monday caricatures of the captains of 32 World Cup squads on its official [...]
JEJU, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hikers will be able to enjoy next year’s first sunrise from the top of the 1,950-meter Mount Halla on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju. The Jeju Provincial Government said Monday it will allow mountain climbing during the night on the first day of 2023, which had been aborted for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 17 percent of South Korean women experienced a career break following their marriage this year, with child-rearing among the top reasons, data showed Tuesday. The number of women aged 15-54 who had stopped working after marriage had come to 1.39 million as of April, slightly down from 1.44 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) consumed the most energy among all facilities in Seoul in 2021 for the 10th year in a row, data showed Tuesday. According to the data by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the country’s most prestigious university consumed 53,318 tons of oil equivalent (TOEs) of energy last [...]