SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Activities by Chinese warships in waters near the Korean Peninsula have increased in recent years, military data showed Friday. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff data released by Rep. Kim Min-ki of the ruling Democratic Party, Chinese war vessels crossed the tentative median line in South Korea’s exclusive [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Global climate change has increased the frequency of abnormal weather conditions, such as heat waves, tropical nights and typhoons, and lengthened the duration of cold waves and droughts on the Korean Peninsula over the past decade, a government report said Wednesday. According to the report published jointly by the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — About one in three South Korean students sees the Korean Peninsula as not peaceful, a government poll showed Tuesday, apparently reflecting chilled inter-Korean relations and stalemated denuclearization talks. According to the survey of 66,042 students at 598 elementary, middle and high schools across the country during the October-November period [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Sea turtles released by the government were found to have spent the winter in warmer waters in Southeast Asia before returning to South Korea. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, since releasing 116 sea turtles that were rescued and received treatment in 2015, has been monitoring some of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Cutlassfish that normally live in the warmer seas south of the Korean peninsula have appeared near the coast of Sokcho, Gangneung Province. In the northern county of Goseong, a fisherman caught a spearfish, another kind of tropical fish. These sightings are evidence that the Korean peninsula is turning into [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In downtown Manhattan, New York, participants gathered to make human chain on Saturday (local time) to link the South Korean and North Korean representatives of the U.N. Located about 500 meters away, a rare scene took place in front of the U.N. headquarters, in which the representatives of U.N. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 100 quakes were detected on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding waters in 2018, the third most for a year, the state weather agency said Sunday. The outbreaks of seismic activities totaled 115 in 2018, according to the data by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). It is [...]