SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Fire Agency (NFA) has announced a plan to train a group of firefighters specializing in responding to chemical accidents as part of efforts to upgrade the agency’s overall capability in dealing with chemical accidents. The NFA said Sunday it enforced a new rule to operate a chemical [...]
CHUNCHEON, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gangwon Fire HeadQuarters on Wednesday thanked firefighters who came from across the country to join in the effort to fight massive wildfires in eastern coastal areas. Following a nationwide mobilization of firefighters on March 4, some 300 firefighters and 109 fire trucks banded together to fight the fires. [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Wednesday it has donated all proceeds from the 2022 ‘Firefighters Calendar for Hope,’ along with extra donations, to the Hallym Burn Foundation. The agency raised a total of 107 million won (US$88,900) from calendar sales, donations from private companies and joint [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first labor union for firefighters is set to be inaugurated in the latter half of this year. On Monday, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions held a press conference in Seoul regarding the establishment of a preparatory committee for the inauguration of the nation’s first firefighter labor [...]
CHEONAN, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A new robot arm has been developed to imitate the movements of the operator. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology announced Wednesday that a new special-purpose robot arm had been developed to protect firefighters in the field and carry out complex rescue missions. The robot arm is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — GS The Fresh, a hypermarket franchise, and 119Reo, a social startup, announced Thursday that they will hold a collaboration event to give out bags made from old firefighter uniforms. 119Reo is a social startup dedicated to recycling firefighter uniforms to produce bags, backpacks and accessories, and donate a certain [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Wednesday that it has developed a virtual reality (VR) fire extinguishing training simulator that allows firefighters to be trained in real-like fire environments. The VR training simulator was developed to enable fire extinguishing training using real fire extinguishing equipment. [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi provincial government said Thursday it has developed a fire helmet mounted with a hands-free wireless transmission device that allows wireless communication directly through a helmet while freely using both hands, and is seeking patents for key technologies. The devices can be connected to firefighters’ walkie-talkies to allow [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of firefighters are choosing to commit suicide. The National Fire Agency (NFA) reported on Tuesday that as many as 56 firefighters committed suicide between 2015 and 2019, which is twice the number of deaths in the line of duty (23 people). Between 2013 and 2017, 47 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2,400 of the nation’s firefighters find themselves in a worrisome situation, as they have been classified as being at risk of taking the extreme measure of ending their own life. According to a report released Wednesday by the National Fire Agency (NFA), 2,453 people, or 4.9 percent [...]