SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor is preparing to conduct a labor inspection of Coupang, the country’s leading e-commerce company, following a series of worker deaths in recent months. Kim Min-seok, the Vice Minister of Employment and Labor, addressed the issue during a plenary session of the National Assembly’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A male Siberian tiger, classified as an endangered species, has died under unknown circumstances at a zoo near Seoul, officials said Tuesday. Seoul Grand Park reported the 10-year-old tiger, named Suho, abruptly died Sunday at the zoo in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. Despite showing no unusual symptoms earlier in [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court issued a warrant Sunday to arrest a man suspected of murdering one man and wounding three others in last week’s deadly stabbing rampage near Sillim subway station in southwestern Seoul. The Seoul Central District Court granted a warrant to arrest the 33-year-old suspect, surnamed Cho, on [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Marine Corps has launched a probe into the death of a soldier who was swept away by a torrent this week during search and rescue operations for victims of heavy monsoon rains, the armed service said Thursday, amid public outcry over poor safety measures for troops mobilized for [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Employment and Labor is investigating the recent death of a supermarket worker for possible legal violations. The ministry announced that it is currently investigating the death of a 29-year-old individual who worked at the South Korean unit of U.S. retail giant Costco Wholesale Corp.’s outlet in [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Display Co., a major South Korean display maker, has announced its intention to establish an independent task force to develop countermeasures and address the situation following the recent death of one of its employees. Jeong Ho-young, president and CEO of LG Display, on Tuesday sent an email to [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 14-year-old girl has fallen off an apartment building to her death in Seoul’s southern Gangnam Ward, fire authorities said Friday, marking the third such death involving teenagers reported in the district in a span of five days. Firefighters found her dead near the apartment building in Gangnam’s Apgujeong-dong [...]
INCHEON, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Another victim of a recent large-scale rental fraud case died Monday in an apparent suicide, police said. The woman in her 30s was found unconscious in her home in Michuhol Ward, Incheon, 27 kilometers west of Seoul, at 2:12 a.m. She was rushed to a hospital but died on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army has decided not to recognize Byun Hee-soo, a transgender soldier in her 20s who was found dead last year after being forcibly discharged from service, as having died in the line of duty, military authorities said Thursday. In a committee meeting held earlier in the day, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the rising death toll from alcohol addiction during the pandemic, more than half of victims died a so-called solitary death on their own. The Korean Academy of Addiction Psychiatry showed that the death toll from alcohol abuse jumped from 156 people in 2019 to 204 people in 2020 [...]