SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s national flag carrier, said Tuesday it has opened up a new agency at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in Daejeon to develop a next-generation stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The new agency comes as a part of the company’s strategy to further develop [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Household & Health Care Ltd., a major South Korean cosmetics and household goods maker, said Tuesday it will protect the habitat of otters, which are classified as first-grade endangered species, as part of its ESG management. To restore otter habitat, the company plans to install a playground for [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of farm and fisheries products rose more than 16 percent in the first five months of this year on brisk overseas demand for Korean food, data showed Tuesday. Outbound shipments of agricultural and fisheries goods came to US$5.19 billion in the January-May period, up 16.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — About 6,500 workers with disabilities legally earned less than the minimum wage last year, a report said Tuesday. The report from the Korea Labor and Society Institute found a total of 6,547 workers were excluded from the minimum wage rule as of August 2021. Their average monthly wage was [...]
JEJU, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sea lettuce, a cause of bad odors and a blight on the landscape along the coast of Jeju Island, has effectively been reused as feed for cows. The Jeju Biodiversity Research Institute reported that a study jointly conducted by a local feed manufacturer and Konkuk University on a newly [...]
HAPCHEON, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A cattle farm in the southeastern town of Hapcheon saw a cow give birth to female triplets. Early in the morning on June 8, farmer Lee Sun-ho mistook the newborn calves for wild animals and tried to drive them out. To his surprise, however, Lee realized that they were [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s east coast is full of excitement as the operation of its beaches will return to normal for the first time in three years thanks to the lifting of social distancing rules. The number of people who visited six cities and districts on the east coast of Gangwon [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 5,000 people were apprehended for alleged stalking over the five months since South Korea’s first anti-stalking law went into force, police data showed Monday. A total of 5,248 people were detained for alleged stalking, with 3,039 of them indicted, over the five months since the law took [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that more people are skipping meals following the onset of the pandemic era. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) studied the results of the national health and nutrition survey, in which the percentage of people who skipped either breakfast, lunch, or dinner the [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With soaring consumer prices, the price of fried chicken jumped the highest this year. According to the data from the Korean Statistical Information Service, among 39 types of outdoor food, fried chicken had the highest surge in price at 6.6 percent. All other outdoor foods were also more expensive [...]