SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans who recently entered the Chinese city of Shanghai managed to convince local authorities to allow them to vote in the upcoming presidential election. The Chinese government requires foreigners entering the country to quarantine at hotels and other designated locations for a minimum of two weeks to prevent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s dependency on Japanese materials and parts fell to an all-time low last year following Tokyo’s control of exports of key products bound for Seoul, the industry ministry said Monday. Imports of Japanese materials, parts and equipment came to US$39.5 billion in 2021, accounting for 15.9 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked fifth in terms of the global vehicle production last year, retaining the spot for the second consecutive year, amid efforts to minimize the fallout from the pandemic-caused global chip shortages, a report showed Monday. The combined vehicle output by South Korean carmakers, including Hyundai Motor Co. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is struggling to meet demand for its flagship Galaxy S22 smartphones after its release on Friday. 300,000 new Galaxy S22 phones were sold on the first day of the early-bird registrations on Wednesday, setting a new record, industry sources said. Many pre-order customers, however, have been [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp. (KOMSCO) said Thursday it will begin selling the Park Hang-seo commemorative medal, released in South Korea last year, in Vietnam as well. The medal celebrating Park, the South Korean head coach of the Vietnamese men’s national football team, depicts [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s fisheries output rebounded last year from the previous year on the back of increased fish stocks and expanded fishing grounds, data showed Friday. Total fisheries output amounted to 3.82 million tons last year, up 2.9 percent from a year earlier, according to Statistics Korea. The 2021 tally [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total arable land dropped for the ninth consecutive year in 2021 as rice paddies shrank amid falling consumption of rice, data showed Friday. The country’s arable land totaled 1.55 million hectares — slightly more than three times the size of the U.S. state of Delaware — as [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has revised a law to enable rapid diagnosis of aquatic life disease through simple test kits. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on Thursday announced advance legislation notice for the revision of the Aquatic Life Disease Control Act. The act was revised to strengthen the diagnosis and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – COVID-19 accounted for one in five to six hospital transfers by the 119 emergency medical service in Seoul last year, the city government said Thursday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters, there were a total of 551,647 emergency ambulance dispatches in the capital last year and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The environment ministry said Wednesday it has signed an agreement with 10 public wildlife rescue centers to protect abandoned foreign animals. The agreement focuses on protecting abandoned foreign animals including raccoons, meerkats, foxes and prairie dogs. Based on the agreement, the ministry and regional governments will provide administrative and [...]