SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment has distributed an educational and experience program manual for the exhibition of animals at zoos to municipal governments and zoos across the country. The exemplary cases of the manual indicate that the programs should be halted if visitors do not comply with control or if [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator on Thursday unveiled a guideline on the operation of “fractional investment,” vowing to step up monitoring of the fast-growing industry. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) also said it will determine whether fractional investment has the nature of “securities” by “comprehensively” taking into consideration terms of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT on Tuesday unveiled a guideline on a revised law requiring Netflix and other tech giants to improve their online service quality. Last December, South Korea passed a law revision holding online content service providers accountable if they fail to maintain stable services amid [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Tuesday it has issued a new standardized guideline on animal experiments in line with the country’s efforts to improve the welfare of test subjects. The booklets are designed for the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) under around 450 different organizations nationwide, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government on Wednesday unveiled detailed guidelines for internet cafes that recently resumed business after the government eased tightened social distancing in greater Seoul. Under the guidelines, internet cafes are allowed to sell water and non-alcoholic beverages. Employees are also allowed to have food inside the internet [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s municipal government said Saturday it has translated its guidelines on separate disposal of food waste into 10 foreign languages for distribution to foreigners living in the capital. The 10 languages are English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Russian, Mongolian, French, Malay, Hindi and Thai. The government said the move comes [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — New city government regulations will set a minimum size for rooms in gosiwon, Korean-style boarding houses, and mandate the inclusion of a window. Seoul city announced plans on Monday to establish housing guidelines for gosiwon following the Gukil Gosiwon building fire accident last November which killed 7 people. According [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has set out to help protect the rights of workers in industries that require emotional labor. The city government stated yesterday that it will create and distribute guidelines to protect workers of emotional labor. A more detailed manual in line with the guidelines will be [...]
SEOUL, Feb.22 (Korea Bizwire) – In the first half of the year, it is expected that individuals will be give the option to have unwanted internet information deleted upon request. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced that it is preparing guidelines to provide the ‘right to be forgotten’. The ‘right to be forgotten’ is a [...]