SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Officials from the government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) agreed Tuesday to conduct an investigation into the death of a young contract worker at a thermal power plant in December, party officials said. Kim Yong-gyun, a 24-year-old subcontract worker, was killed in a conveyor belt accident in mid-December [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency launched an investigation into a local office of U.S. tech giant Google Inc. amid rumors of tax evasion by some YouTubers here, industry sources said Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the National Tax Service (NTS) sent auditors and investigators to the headquarters of Google Korea [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea will launch a probe into the fuel efficiency of Volkswagen vehicles that have emissions that have been manipulated to meet tightened environmental regulations, a government official close to the matter said Thursday. The investigation follows the transportation ministry’s internal conclusion that there is a “correlation” between the German [...]