ANSAN, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An exclusive swimming pool where students can learn professional survival swimming will be established in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. The construction of the swimming pool began at Ansan Lake Park on Friday. Investing 19.5 billion won (US$16 million), the city plans to finish the construction of the swimming pool by [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate among children and teenagers has increased following the spread of COVID-19, which has forced many to remain indoors. A research team from Nowon Eulji Medical Center compared the body mass index (BMI) data of children who visited the hospital before and during the pandemic. Of 113 [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Z Corp.’s mobile-based metaverse platform Zepeto is under fire for selling Japanese costumes worn during the early stages of Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula. The costumes, released Tuesday, were soon reported by users as sensitive items that could incite discrimination as well as political and social disputes. [...]
CHUNCHEON, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gangwon Fire HeadQuarters on Wednesday thanked firefighters who came from across the country to join in the effort to fight massive wildfires in eastern coastal areas. Following a nationwide mobilization of firefighters on March 4, some 300 firefighters and 109 fire trucks banded together to fight the fires. [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — BMW Group Korea said Wednesday it has replaced paper copies of its car warranties with a digital warranty system. As South Korea’s first digitalized warranty in the automobile industry, the system is also BMW’s first around the world. Customers will receive a single-page QR code sheet instead of a [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will establish the first Gig Worker Workstation as part of efforts to provide workspace for gig workers who are employed primarily on a temporary basis. Based on considerations that gig workers use cafes or shared offices as workspaces, thereby resulting in a [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The spread of COVID-19 has led to further social isolation with leisure activities including traveling, sports and others halving since the pre-pandemic era. Statistics Korea reported Tuesday that the level of the country’s social isolation last year reached 34.1 percent, the highest since 2009. The level of interpersonal trust [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean webtoon series “Money Game” has been produced into an American web reality show, Naver Webtoon said Tuesday. The new American show is a five-episode reality show in which eight participants compete in a series of brainteaser games to win a prize of US$300,000. Jubilee, a YouTube channel [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it will distribute 7,000 electric motorcycles this year. This is the largest annual volume since the city government launched the distribution of electric motorcycles. This year’s distribution of electric models will be equivalent to 60 percent of the cumulative number of motorcycles [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Socioeconomic costs, such as medical costs, caused by direct smoking have surpassed the 12 trillion won (US$9.66 billion) threshold on an annual basis. A research team from Seoul National University reported that 58,036 people died from direct smoking in 2019, which amounts to an average of 159 people every [...]