SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Car accidents involving unlicensed teenagers soared by 34 percent between 2018 and 2020, road traffic data showed Thursday. According to a Korea Road Traffic Authority report submitted to Rep. Kang Deuk-gu of the ruling Democratic Party, teenagers caused 833 accidents last year while driving without a license, a sharp [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The installation of recycled airbags, which is illegal under current laws, can pose a risk to human life in car accidents, primarily due to malfunctions, a study showed Tuesday. The Korea Consumer Agency and the Korea Insurance Development Institute jointly carried out a test in which four cars with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to set up an exclusive committee with a specific mission of investigating self-driving car-related accidents. The committee will be responsible for clarifying who is responsible when self-driving car accidents occur. The investigation committee, slated to be inaugurated on Oct. 8, would be able to exercise the [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of traffic fatalities in South Korea fell 11.4 percent last year from a year earlier, data showed Sunday. A total of 3,349 people died from car accidents in 2019, down from 3,781 tallied a year earlier, according to data compiled by the land and transport ministry and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent data shows that pedestrians account for a significant share of deaths caused by car accidents. The National Police Agency reported Monday that pedestrians accounted for at least 40 percent of all deaths by car accidents that happened between 2015 and 2019. Pedestrian deaths occurred mostly in the period [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Safety Speed 5030 policy, imposing speed limits of 50 km/h and 30 km/h on arterial highways and community roads, respectively, has resulted in more than 50 percent decrease in the number of deaths. The Road Traffic Authority, the National Police Agency, and SK Telecom, operator of the navigation [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that while the total number of car accidents fell, the number of car accidents each year in which senior drivers over 65 years old were responsible have drastically increased in proportion over the past four years. Rep. Han Sun-kyo of the main opposition Liberty [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has developed a technology that automatically sends out a distress call when a car overturns in an accident or a driver loses control of their vehicle. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Daejeon announced on Tuesday that it has developed seven terminal units equipped with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Driving under the influence is both legally and morally irresponsible, unnecessarily putting at risk the lives of innocent bystanders. Unfortunately, a significant number of Koreans still fail to recognize the dangers of drunk driving, and the lukewarm legal punishment of DUI offenders, even when there are fatalities, is seemingly [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has caught 20 individuals who faked car accidents using scrapped imported cars to seek insurance payouts. The suspects, who are not related to each other, received a total of 1.3 billion won (US$ 1.16 million), or 65 million won (US$ 58,200) in compensation on average, by [...]