SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Shop owners in Hambak Village, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, which is home to a significant foreign population, have come together to demand protection for their business rights. On September 18, more than 50 members of the Task Force for the Survival Rights of Local Shop Owners in Hambak Village gathered in front [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 100 foreigners will be employed for housekeeping jobs as early as later this year as part of a government pilot project to address a dwindling number of locals willing to work as maids despite rising demand, officials said Friday. The project, scheduled to be introduced in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign nationals without a registered address or residence in South Korea must now appoint a trustee and provide their personal information when purchasing a house, the land ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced that it will enact and enforce the updated enforcement ordinance [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the city-run operator of the subway system in Seoul, said Monday it will establish a communication system aimed at facilitating interactions between subway staff and foreigners through real-time translation. The organization intends to choose a developer to design and implement an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system and initiate a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners picked soju, South Korea’s traditional distilled liquor, as the most well-known Korean alcoholic beverage, survey showed Tuesday. The Korean Food Promotion Institution conducted a survey of 8,500 respondents from 15 countries and found that 41.2 percent mentioned soju as a Korean alcoholic beverage they knew about. Following soju [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run railway operator should give foreigners registered as disabled the same discount on train tickets as local disabled people receive, the state human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea put forward the opinion after a woman filed a petition last year that her [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign workers accounted for nearly 50 percent of crew members working in South Korea last year, the oceans ministry said Monday. A total of 60,148 crew members were working on local fishing boats as of end-2022, and 28,281 of them were foreigners, or 47 percent of the total, according [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign ownership of South Korean land rose 1.8 percent in 2022 from a year earlier, the land ministry said Wednesday. Foreigners owned 264.01 square kilometers — slightly more than four times the size of Manhattan — at the end of December. It represents 0.26 percent of South Korea’s total [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign purchases of South Korean tech and auto stocks have reached over 16 trillion won (US$12 billion) so far this year, according to the Korea Exchange on Monday. Foreigners bought 16.45 trillion won worth of Samsung Electronics Co., Hyundai Motor Co. and other related stocks this year through May [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 6 million have participated in temple-life experience programs over the past decades, with foreigners accounting for 11 percent of the total, data showed Saturday. According to data compiled by Rep. Song Eon-seok of the ruling People Power Party, a total of 6.44 million have visited temples across the [...]