SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean market for security services is expected to grow by 40 percent to 7 trillion won (US$5.9 billion) by 2020, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy presented the outlook at a conference on how to better protect the country’s key infrastructure facilities. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Corporate feud over the source of a toxin strain used in Botox injections has raised safety concerns among consumers, who lay the blame on the state drug safety agency for standing akimbo even when the controversy is growing. Officials at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety reaffirmed Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government announced Thursday that it will build eight additional safety training centers that offer hands-on experience and training for earthquakes by 2020. The announcement came following Korea’s record 5.8-magnitude quake that shook the nation on September 12, and the more than 400 aftershocks that have followed since. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Swedish furniture group IKEA on Friday said it will recall 15 dressers sold in South Korea over concerns they could pose a safety risk to children, months after similar products caused deaths in North America. IKEA recalled 36 million dressers in the U.S. and Canada in June after six [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by the Ministry of Public Safety and Security (MPSS) revealed that Koreans have grown to feel less safe across all social areas in the first half of 2016, with the level of social safety reported by the general population scoring 2.79 out of 5. The ministry [...]
ULSAN, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Pokémon Go may not make its official launch in Korea for a while, but its popularity here continues with fans flocking to areas across the peninsula where a GPS glitch in the game has allowed for its operation. Ulsan’s Ganjeol Cape is among the locations that have accumulated hundreds, [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In what some might see as a late response to the recent controversy over IKEA’s Malm dresser, which has been cited for the death of at least three children in North America, the Korean government has decided to investigate the safety of all dressers currently being distributed domestically. According [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Earthquake! Kindergarten children visited the Seongdong Life Safety Learning Center in Seoul on Wednesday morning, to raise awareness of natural disasters and to train for earthquake evacuation. Following a 5.0-magnitude underwater earthquake that was observed some 52km off the coast of Ulsan on July 5, there has been an [...]
BUSAN, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A 5.0-magnitude underwater earthquake with an epicenter only 52km off the coast of Ulsan was detected Tuesday night at 8:33 p.m. Although no casualties or damages resulted from the event, the tremor was sensed across the nation, and citizens in Ulsan and nearby regions panicked as they felt the ground [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean government agencies, a local media outlet and civil organizations on Friday joined together to promote women’s safety in public restrooms in the wake of the controversial killing of a woman in a public bathroom in Seoul in May. The 23-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a [...]