SEJONG, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday issued a higher alert amid concerns over foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) spreading in the country. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it increased the severity of the alert, to the second-highest level, after two FMD cases were reported in Anseong, 80 kilometers south [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will start checking industrial products as part of efforts to prevent red fire ants from entering the country, the government said Sunday. Quarantine authorities said the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency and Korea Customs Service (KCS) have teamed up to check containers bringing in industrial goods from [...]
DAEGU, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A species of red fire ants was discovered at an apartment construction site in Daegu today, by constructions workers, prompting them to halt construction work. The day before, a total of 830 ants including a red fire ant queen, 770 worker ants and others were discovered, raising a red [...]
NAMYANGJU, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, said in a public statement that it had identified geographic locations at varying risk of outbreaks of disease through the application of big data technology. The city government charted a map of the city by combing through 2,072 civilian reports of disease carrying [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Following criticism of recurrent foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in South Korea, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced Sunday that it will introduce a pilot project for a mutual aid system that will function much like a health insurance policy for cattle. The “premiums” will be split fifty-fifty [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has established quarantine and hygiene procedures, allowing for fresh eggs to be imported from the United States in order to stabilize soaring egg prices stemming from the worst outbreak of avian influenza, the government here said Monday. “The government announced the removal of import tariffs on eggs [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s historic bird flu outbreak has led to the culling of over 28 million poultry. And while officials are struggling to secure the necessary manpower for the mass culling efforts, the military has so far been reluctant to offer a hand by mobilizing its troops to help out with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea quarantine officials have slaughtered more than 9.81 million poultry this winter, an official said Tuesday, the latest in a series of efforts to contain a bird flu that has ravaged chicken farms across the country. They also plan to kill an additional 2.53 million chickens and ducks [...]
EUMSEONG, South Korea, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands of chickens and ducks infected with the H5N6 bird flu virus at farms in South Jeolla and North Chungcheong provinces were culled over the weekend. The virus has rapidly spread in the region, according to officials, killing dozens of birds since the outbreak. Some 250,000 birds [...]
SEOUL, August 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The SBS TV show ‘The True Thing That We Wanna Know’ revealed in an episode aired on July 30 the tragedy of the Sorok Island colony, where patients were abused by Japanese officials, as well as their own government. The SBS show presented significant evidence of the government’s abuse of power, [...]