SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Residents living near a military base hosting an advanced U.S. missile defense system in southeastern South Korea are showing high levels of mental health instability, the state human rights watchdog said Wednesday, calling for swift government countermeasures. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said it has raised [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of individuals from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries who stayed in South Korea last year marked a positive year to year growth, data showed Wednesday. According to the ASEAN-Korea Centre, the number of people belonging to ASEAN’s ten member countries who stayed in Asia’s fourth-largest [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Financial benefits for residents, farmers and fishermen who have invested in the construction of solar power plants or wind farms are about to increase, the industry ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that it will put up an administrative notice to amend several parts [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 25 percent of interns and residents who begin thoracic surgery residency programs fail to complete them, indicating a severe shortage of qualified professionals in essential medical departments, data showed Sunday. The proportion of thoracic surgery residents who leave residencies stood at 24.1 percent as of July, and [...]
JEJU, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The southern resort island of Jeju reported shrinking building area for the first annual quarter. The Jeju provincial government reported a 26.41 percent decrease in the province’s building permit area, which dropped from 480,392 square meters in the January-March period last year to 353,509 square meters for the same quarter [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of Jincheon and Asan said Friday they will no longer oppose the government’s decision to house South Korean nationals evacuated from China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, in the two central South Korean towns. Residents living near the Police Human Resources Development Institute in Asan, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will train resident ‘regulators’ to resolve conflicts and disputes between neighbors. The SMG and the Seoul YMCA completed the training of 309 residents from May to November as part of an initiative to develop a network of so-called neighborhood regulators who will help resolve [...]
GWANGMYEONG, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of Cheolsan 2-dong in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province are participating in a special program to knit sweaters for street trees. The Cheolsan 2-dong Community Service Center, in tandem with the residents’ autonomy committee, began the Tree-Hug project in December of last year. The project involves participants knitting sweaters in [...]