SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next week, anyone, including foreign tourists, will be able to drive or walk near South Korea’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae at all hours, the office announced Thursday. Currently, the only road leading to Cheong Wa Dae is closed off to public access from 8 p.m. to 5:30 [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s power supply hovered above its demand for the past seven days after a temporary shutdown of eight old coal-fired power plants, government data showed Sunday, shaking off concerns over a possible shortage. Starting June 1, the aged thermal power plants, including four in central Chungcheong Province, went offline for a month in line with the government’s efforts [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Thursday dismissed the government’s existing plans to fight the spread of avian influenza as a formality, calling for “real and fundamental” solutions, the presidential office said. The proposed measures to fight the spread of bird flu came one day after the country reported a suspected [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating dropped slightly from a week earlier though it still remained at a record high level, a survey showed Friday. In a survey conducted by Gallup Korea, 82 percent of 1,011 adults polled offered a positive evaluation of Moon’s management of state affairs. The tally [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a month has passed since the inauguration of President Moon Jae-in on May 10. Among the many adjectives used by the media to define Moon’s personality, “unauthoritarian” stands out. Moon’s departure from the stereotypical authoritarian attitudes of a president became a hot topic in the news starting his [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in promised Wednesday to hire 1,500 new firefighters before the year’s end and a total of 19,000 before his five-year term ends. The 19,000 new firefighters and rescue workers will be included in 810,000 new jobs the president has pledged to create, but he said they will [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s newly-elected president promised Friday that the government would take a more proactive role in tackling dementia, a mental illness that affects nearly one in ten elderly people in the country. Speaking to family members and dementia patients during a visit to the Seoul Sanitarium and Hospital, Moon [...]
ANSAN, SOUTH KOREA, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – As the newly elected Moon administration accelerates its efforts to implement environment policy, with the latest example being a temporary shutdown of aging coal-fueled power plants around the country, the city of Ansan is drawing attention over its emergence as a pioneer of renewable energy. According to [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The supply of electricity in South Korea experienced little to no disruption when the newly introduced temporary shutdown of eight aging coal-fueled power plants took effect for the first time yesterday. According to the Korea Power Exchange (KPX), the daily maximum electricity demand was estimated at 68.85 million kW [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 80 percent of the public approve of President Moon Jae-in’s job performance so far, a survey showed Friday, less than a month after the liberal took office. In the survey conducted on 1,004 adults from Tuesday to Thursday, 84 percent of respondents said they think Moon is [...]