SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday reaffirmed its strong commitment toward reduced dependency on conventional energy sources, such as coal, and more environment-friendly sources. The country’s new energy policy roadmap, proposed in April, was approved at the Cabinet meeting, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. South Korea’s energy [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced a package of measures Tuesday to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) from the country by 2030. South Korea has the highest TB prevalence among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Slightly over 70 in 100,000 South Koreans were infected with the disease in 2017, [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Tuesday it plans to build 18 hydrogen production facilities by 2022 in line with the government’s vision of utilizing the resource as the country’s main source of energy for vehicles and other daily uses. Construction for the first batch of three plants in Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will be conducting a component analysis of products from Juul, America’s most popular electronic cigarettes, to provide citizens with information about harmful substances included in the new cigarettes soon to be introduced to the country. “Juul is now available in the local market, and we are going [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government has decided to foster a culture where children can play whenever they want, opening ways to develop a variety of programs at schools and in local communities. The government announced on Thursday a list of major objectives to create a nation where ‘children can be [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday that it will remove the right of parents to administer corporal punishment on their children as part of efforts to enhance the rights of minors. The move is part of the Moon Jae-in administration’s youth policy that aims to create an environment where children can [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In its quest for new growth engines for Asia’s fourth-largest economy, South Korea charted out a set of measures to foster the biohealth industry by utilizing its prowess in information and communication technology with the goal of becoming a global powerhouse in the sector by 2030. South Korea has [...]
SEJONG, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Fail Expo,” which shares various failure experiences and supports redemption, will be held in five regions across the country, starting in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, until September. The Ministry of Interior and Safety announced on Tuesday that it will hold a joint declaration ceremony with the Ministry of SMEs [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 240 billion won (US$204 million) in the next 10 years to develop key semiconductor technologies that can alter the paradigm of the chip industry as a whole, the science ministry said Thursday. The medium-to-long term chip sector growth plan centers around securing know-how in such [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will make a concerted effort to build up its non-memory chip industry in line with its goal of becoming a global semiconductor powerhouse by 2030, the government said Tuesday. Under the system semiconductor vision strategy, Asia’s fourth-largest economy has set its sights on establishing itself as the [...]