SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Wednesday it made over 15,000 new public Wi-Fi service zones available across the country and in buses last year, bringing the total locations with free public Wi-Fi to over 57,000. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the public can access free Wi-Fi in [...]
JEONGSEON/TAEBAEK, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The dismantling of South Korea’s once flourishing mining regions was caused not by the decline of the coal industry, but by government policy that targeted the early shutdown of mines and a rapid reduction in coal output, research showed Thursday. According to a study commissioned by Jeongseon County in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday it will spend 670 billion won (US$607 million) by 2023 to bolster the country’s cyber security capabilities to respond to growing new digital threats. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it will develop infrastructure to quickly respond to cyber security threats, by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday the accumulated number of eco-friendly cars running in the country will reach 7.85 million by 2030, in line with its vision to go fully carbon-neutral by 2050. The target will mark a sharp rise from 820,000 units tallied in the previous year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recommended list of instructions for public agencies on reducing the use of disposable products will soon become a legal obligation. The Ministry of Environment recently announced plans for enactment of this new law. The new bill bans public agencies from buying or using disposable products during official events [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government decided Saturday to lower social distancing levels by one notch each for the greater Seoul area and the other regions next week, but kept tight vigilance to curb COVID-19 by retaining a ban on gatherings of five people or more. Health authorities said that starting Monday, they [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Early scrapping of old diesel cars that cannot be fitted with low-emission devices will be subject to higher government compensation. The Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economy and Finance introduced a new project for early scrapping of diesel cars with grade 5 emissions on Friday. This year, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Thursday it plans to raise 200 billion won (US$179 million) this year to nurture eco-friendly automobiles and other state-of-the-art technologies, in line with the country’s New Deal drive announced last year. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it has clinched a memorandum [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a new plan on Tuesday to protect finless porpoises reportedly dying off the southwestern coast. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries will begin looking into the habitats of finless porpoises in the southern region of the west coast and the coastline along South Gyeongsang Province to collect [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will invest 202.4 billion won (US$181.8 million) this year in virtual reality (VR) technology and devices to support the growth of the country’s digital content industry, according to the ICT ministry on Wednesday. The move comes after the government unveiled a broader interagency investment plan for the [...]