SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Monday that the company’s Veloster N ETCR won the fifth round of the Pure ETCR, an all-electric multi-brand touring car championship. The series consists of four short-distance races and a final race. The ranking of the manufacturers and drivers is set by adding the [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of traffic deaths in South Korea dropped to a record low in the first half of the year, data showed Monday. The National Police Agency said the number of people killed in road accidents from January to June was estimated at 1,236, a decrease of 5.1 percent [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of fisheries products touched a fresh high in the first half of this year thanks to brisk overseas demand, data showed Monday. Outbound shipments of fisheries goods reached US$1.71 billion during the January-June period, according to the data by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A lakeside village in Switzerland that was one of the filming locations of the smash-hit rom-com “Crash Landing On You” (2019) is emerging as a hot tourist destination thanks to the popularity of the Korean drama. Swiss intercity bus operator PostAuto AG recently uploaded a notice on its official [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1 out of 10 workers have experienced layoffs since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rate of those who lost jobs reaching nearly 30 percent among non-regular workers, a poll showed Sunday. The survey of 1,000 employees — 600 regular workers and 400 temporary workers [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign currency deposits at banks in South Korea shrank in June as importers paid bills and individuals sold the greenback amid a strong dollar, data showed on Friday. Residents’ outstanding foreign currency-denominated deposits had reached US$87.06 billion as of end-June, down $2.11 billion from the previous month, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total fertility rate, or the number of children each woman is expected to give birth to during her lifetime, was the lowest in the world for the last three years. The Korea Population and Health Welfare Association and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) jointly published a [...]
SEJONG, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Luggage delivery services, which were once available only at Jeju Airport for delivering travelers’ luggage to hotels or other destinations, will now be made available to Jeju-bound tourists nationwide. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Korea Airports Corp. announced Thursday that they will introduce the luggage delivery [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hailing a taxi becomes much more difficult around midnight and on Fridays, a consumer advocacy group said Thursday. The Korea Consumer Agency conducted an online survey of 1,000 consumers using a taxi-hailing platform, in which consumers experienced the most difficulty hailing a cab during certain hours (52.7 percent) and [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group claimed Thursday that highly toxic pesticides have been used extensively in Seoul’s public green spaces such as parks and palaces as well as on street trees. The Korean Federation for Environmental Movement received data on the use of pesticides sprayed in the capital city’s public green [...]