SEJONG, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Apartment security guards in South Korea now have legal grounds to refuse work they’re not officially required to do. These guards, largely comprised of elderly post-retirees, have frequently been pushed by apartment residents to run errands that were not typically required of them, and had to put up with [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of cyberbullying cases observed by local schools jumped in 2015 from three years earlier, data showed Monday, in line with the sharp increase in mobile messenger users. According to the data compiled by the parliament’s education committee, the number of cyberbullying cases monitored by schools came to [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The fact that large corporations still abuse their market power to bully smaller enterprises would hardly come as a surprise to most Koreans. Just two months ago, Korea’s leading hypermarket franchises, Homeplus, E-mart and Lotte Mart, were fined 22 billion, 1 billion, and 850 million won, respectively, for ‘unfair [...]
BUSAN, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean law enforcement agencies are investigating two male police officers who engaged in sexual relationships with high-school girls they were assigned to counsel and protect. The ‘school-assigned police officer system’ was implemented nationwide in 2012 following a tragic 2011 incident in which a middle school student committed suicide after [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly two out of 10 primary and secondary school students were either perpetrators or victims of cyber bullying, carried out often by acquaintances while victims react with passivity, a report showed Tuesday. Compiled jointly by the Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency, the report was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – As accidents caused by mentally ill soldiers increase in the military barracks, the Korean defense ministry plans to lower the military exemption standards for psychiatric patents to six months of treatment from the current standard of more than one year. On December 7, the Ministry of National Defense of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Just ahead of the beginning of a new school year on March 2, a survey revealed the biggest headache for parents with elementary schoolchildren was their children’s relationship with friends. According to WeekOn, a learning community, based on a survey conducted on 2,250 parents of school-age children between [...]