SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Random chat applications that don’t identify the user and save chat histories will be banned from being installed on teenagers’ smartphones in South Korea, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said it is planning to designate applications that provide free online chat services among [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday lifted a ban on Jin Air Co. on offering new air routes amid the coronavirus outbreak that has hit the global airline industry. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has also allowed the budget carrier to register new airplanes and to provide non-regular flights. [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has decided to temporarily lift restrictions on the use of disposable plastic and car access to public agencies after the alert level for coronavirus was raised to red last week. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters and other agencies made the decision to [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, introduced Sunday the types of criminal acts that often occur in subway stations, on platforms and trains and regulations concerning punishment for these offenses. If a subway passenger spreads false information, including declaring on the subway that one is the novel [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it plans to adopt tougher regulations to prevent animal cruelty and to provide animals with a better living environment as part of efforts to improve animal welfare in the country. The set of strenghtened policies, which runs through 2024, will focus on enhancing the public’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday that it will streamline regulations on drones in the latest move to boost the fledgling industry and create more jobs. The road map calls for 35 revisions to existing rules and the modifying of guidelines to stimulate growth in the drone industry while enhancing public [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that South Korea imposes harsher regulations on franchise owners than the United States. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) said that South Korea has more than twice as many regulations on franchises than in the United States. South Korean regulations tended to focus on [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean convenience store operators agreed Tuesday not to engage in cut-throat competition in the latest move to better protect struggling franchisees. A key centerpiece of the voluntary deal calls for CU, GS25 and Seven-Eleven and three other convenience store brands to decide “carefully” over whether to open a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will revise laws and regulations in a way that facilitates the use of self-driving cars, such as changing the definition of drivers, officials said Thursday. The move is part of efforts to preemptively remove regulations that could impede the development and commercialization of self-driving cars, considered one [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Min-ji, a 28-year-old living in northern Seoul, said she has recently become more conscious of pedestrians when walking her Pomeranian at nearby parks, after a French bulldog owned by a popular singer bit a neighbor who later died from complications in October. Jeon Ga-yong, a 34-year-old resident of [...]