SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government plans to expand the programs of the so-called “Culture Day” as part of its efforts to make it easier for hardworking Koreans to let off some steam, the Culture Ministry said Monday. The program, which began in January 2014, aims at helping South Koreans more [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Tuesday it will sternly punish employers who habitually and intentionally do not pay salaries in a timely manner. A total of 296,000 employees across the country were not properly paid in due time last year, according to data by the Ministry of Employment and Labor. “The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said Wednesday that the government will put all-out efforts into parliamentary approval of labor reform bills to create more jobs. Hwang described job creation as a major government task at the moment. In September, labor, management and the government reached a landmark deal to ease [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government will push to reorganize the country’s numerous special economic zones that have failed to meet expectations, the finance ministry said Sunday. The ministry said plans by 14 regional administrations to build more than 200 free economic zones, industrial innovation centers, and research and development zones have not moved forward as planned. Of these, the country has some 90 special regions dedicated to attracting foreign [...]
SEOUL, Nov.27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has opened a research center to study the ingredients in cigarettes, their addictiveness and their risk on health. Located at the KCDC complex in Osong, Chungbuk Province, the research center will analyze the components of cigarettes and their fumes, usage among [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The third plan to deal with a chronically low birthrate and aging society issued by the government sees delayed marriage as one of the main causes of low rates of childbirth, and concentrates on providing solutions to establish ‘good conditions to get married’. As a first step, the government [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Security and Public Administration said on February 19 that it has closed the application on the 7th for its 2014 exam for 9th-grade (the lowest public officer grade) government employees and the total applicant numbers were 193,840 for only 3,000 slots. That’s the rate [...]