SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A law revision allowing minors abused by their parents to directly file for the termination of parental rights has passed through a Cabinet meeting, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice said minors will be given the right to directly file a suit scrapping the parental rights of their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Harvard professor, criticized for his depiction of victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as prostitutes, will “significantly” revise another controversial paper on the 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan, a co-editor of an academic handbook said Saturday. In an email interview with Yonhap News Agency, Alon Harel, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it has decided to ease the existing anti-graft law over the upcoming Lunar New Year’s holiday in order to help boost local demand for agricultural and fisheries products amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Under the revision, the ceiling on the value of gifts that can [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Posuni, a character symbolizing policewomen, will become more gender neutral, police said Tuesday, as part of efforts to eliminate gender stereotypes. The Korean National Police Agency said it considered and approved a revised bill on the police mascots of Podori and Posuni in a meeting Monday, to make some [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced Sunday that a new revision to United Nations regulations will make it mandatory for carmakers to include a seat belt warning light or alarm for all seats in passenger vehicles and small trucks (up to 3.5 tons) as early as 2019. [...]