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 [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The bereaved family of a fisheries official killed by North Korea in 2020 vowed Friday to reveal what former President Moon Jae-in did during the six hours after their loved one was found adrift at sea until he was ultimately shot to death. The family of the late official, [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Song Hae, South Korea’s oldest TV presenter, died Wednesday. He was 95. According to the police and hospital officials, he passed away in the morning at his home in southern Seoul. He had been admitted to a hospital for medical treatment and released several times this year. He tested [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jung-ju, the founder of gaming giant Nexon Co., has died, his company said Tuesday. He was 54. NXC Corp., the holding firm of Nexon, said Kim died in the United States late last month. “Please excuse us that we cannot explain in detail as all of his family [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A woman in her 40s has been killed by her former boyfriend while under police protection, officials said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of preventable deaths expected to spark calls for better protection measures for such victims. The victim, whose identity was withheld, was having a drink [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Paul Schneiss, a German pastor who made the world aware of pro-democracy movements in South Korea during the 1970s and ’80s, died Friday at the age of 88, the state-funded Korea Democracy Foundation said. Schneiss is well known for requesting German journalist Jurgen Hinzpeter in 1980 to film the [...]
GWANGJU, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Bae Eun-sim, the mother of a late student activist whose death became a symbol of South Korea’s pro-democracy movement in 1987, died Sunday. She was 82. Bae had been hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction last Monday, and was discharged Saturday. She died at Chosun University Hospital in the southwestern [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Former President Chun Doo-hwan, a general-turned strongman widely criticized for seizing power through a 1979 military coup and ruthlessly quelling a pro-democracy civil uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju the following year, died Tuesday at the age of 90. Chun died at his home in western Seoul around [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer remained the top cause of death in South Korea, with the number of deaths hitting a record high last year, a government report showed Tuesday. In 2020, 304,948 deaths were reported in South Korea, up 3.3 percent from a year earlier. It marked the highest annual number since [...]