SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The campus of Dongduk Women’s University erupted in protest on November 12 as hundreds of students occupied buildings and boycotted classes after discovering administrators had secretly discussed transforming the 74-year-old institution into a coeducational university. The historic campus in Seoul’s Seongbuk district was blanketed with funeral wreaths bearing slogans like [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Tuesday criticized some medical professors for threatening to boycott training programs for junior doctors, calling their move “deeply regrettable.” Cho made the remarks as some medical professors have vowed to boycott training programs for junior doctors in protest of the government’s push for accepting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of Christmas, a prime season for cakes, anti-SPC sentiment is on the rise with many vowing to avoid purchasing SPC products. A boycott movement of SPC Group brands began in October, after a 23-year-old worker killed in a sauce mixer accident at at the factory affiliated with the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are boycotting South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group following the death of a young worker at a bread-making factory. “The death machine that made ‘blood-stained bread’ ends now,” posters that were put up across the Seoul National University campus by a student club said. A [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A boycott of South Korea’s food and beverage giant SPC Group is spreading among consumers after a young worker in her 20s died at a factory affiliated with the group. The 23-year-old employee at the factory affiliated with the group in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, died Saturday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of all South Koreans believe that they should join the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, a survey showed Monday. The Korea Society Opinion Institute conducted a survey of 1,004 Koreans over 18 years of age, 50.9 percent of whom said the country should join [...]
CANBERRA/SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Monday that South Korea is not considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics and has not been asked by any nation to do so. Moon addressed the issue for the first time after the United States announced last week that it will not send [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A domestic golf course has decided to ban the entry of Japanese cars starting from next year, becoming the first of its kind in South Korea. Anesville Country Club, located in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, posted a notice on its website on Nov. 1 indicating that it will ban [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the recent death of a restaurant owner who had a series of stressful interactions with a Coupang Eats customer asking for a refund, a number of reports have claimed that the service has abused food vendors. An online forum for small businesses in South Korea is becoming a [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is under fire for its poor working environment and its founder following a massive fire at one of the company’s warehouses. Some netizens are leading a boycott of Coupang by canceling their membership and deleting the Coupang app. ‘Leaving Coupang’ has become a real-time trend [...]