SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee shops, bars and internet cafes have joined a growing list of businesses protesting the government’s coronavirus restrictions, with shop owners lighting signboards, staging demonstrations and petitioning the Constitutional Court. The shop owners say the restrictions are applied unfairly, allowing some businesses to reopen while shuttering others, and without [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of fitness and pilates clubs in South Korea are taking a collective action to protest against the government’s latest decision to extend the Level 2.5 social distancing period by two additional weeks. During the extended period, fitness and pilates clubs will have to remain closed. Nonetheless, some [...]
JEJU, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of “haenyeo,” or female divers in Jeju Island have voiced strong opposition ahead of the Jeju Provincial Council’s deliberations on the motion of the environmental impact assessment for the offshore wind farm in Gujwa-eup. About one hundred haenyeos who are members of the Handong-Pyeongdae fishing village fraternities [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 4,000 parcel delivery workers backtracked from a plan to stop sorting parcels in protest of heavy workloads ahead of the Chuseok holiday, a civic advocacy group said Friday. The civic task force working for the rights of delivery workers and associated with the progressive Korean Confederation of Trade [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 4,000 parcel delivery workers will refuse to sort parcels in protest of heavy workloads ahead of the Chuseok holiday, a civic advocacy group said Thursday. The civic task force working for the rights of delivery workers and associated with the progressive Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) said [...]
GYEONGSAN, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of university students from Gyeongsan in North Gyeongsang province began a 200-kilometer protest march towards the Ministry of Education in Sejong, South Chungcheong province, calling for a tuition refund after their schools delayed on-campus classes amid the continued coronavirus outbreak. The chairmen of the student councils at [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Defective security cameras and lax discipline led to a Navy unit on the southern island of Jeju failing to detect civic activists intruding into its compound earlier this month, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, promising to strongly reprimand the officers responsible. On March 7, four activists who [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Some angry fans are stepping up their demand that boy band EXO’s vocalist Chen leave the team after the member made a surprise announcement last week that he will get married. The 28-year-old singer, whose legal name is Kim Jong-dae, announced last week that he will soon get married [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets in downtown Seoul Thursday calling for the ouster of Justice Minister Cho Guk as prosecutors questioned Cho’s wife as part of a widening probe into corruption allegations surrounding the family. The crowd — mostly supporters of the main opposition [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is spreading via social media on whether children can participate willingly in political or religious events or not. On the other side of the venue of the Incheon Queer Culture Festival in front of Bupyeong Station in Incheon in late August, rallies against sexual minorities were held simultaneously. [...]