SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a crisis response meeting to discuss measures to minimize damage that natural disasters could cause to crops and other agricultural products, state media reported Tuesday. The meeting, which took place virtually Monday, also discussed progress in natural disaster prevention projects for the first half of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent torrential rain that hit South Korea’s central region was responsible for the deaths of several people among society’s more vulnerable groups, and the socially vulnerable bear larger and more extensive mental damage, a study showed Sunday. Lee Yoo-bin from the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s four major telecom operators said Thursday that they had formed a business tie-up to ensure a joint response to the restoration and prevention of telecommunications service damages caused by natural disasters. When damages occur due to natural disasters, the four companies — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. [...]