SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A firefighting helicopter crashed in Gwangju, South Korea, killing all five people on board. The helicopter crashed onto a residential area in the middle of the day, causing further damage to the pedestrians near the accident site, including a teenage girl who was reportedly hit by a fragment of [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon, the host city of the upcoming Asian Games in September this year, is striving to induce Chinese package tourists with various tourist attractions including the shooting site of the much beloved drama “My Love from the Star.” On July 2, a total of 3,000 Chinese group tourists arrived [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Although the June 4 Local Elections are near at hand, the streets are quiet and calm compared with the previous elections when candidates were desperately trying to make them recognized using loud speakers mounted on the campaign vehicles. As the elections are to be held just after the tragic [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Against the government’s plan to dissolve the National Coast Guard and the National Emergency Management Agency and merge them with a soon-to-be-established national safety agency, a firefighter began the signature collecting campaign to save the firefighters’ agency. On May 28, a firefighter posted an appeal on Daum’s online discussion [...]
JINDO & SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A civilian diver died today (May 30) in the operation to retrieve still missing bodies — 16 of them as of today — from the Sewol ferry which sank on April 16. The diver surnamed Lee was reportedly cutting open parts of the ship exterior under the [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – When the passenger ferry Sewol, was about to sink in the morning of April 16, high school students in the ferry made several calls to the police for rescue. But the coast guard spent precious time to pinpoint where the ferry was, asking the students of the latitude and [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Upon reaching the 10 million foreign tourists mark last year, the domestic tour industry is alarmed with a “red alert” after the tragic accident of the capsized ferry Sewol. Following the announcement of the Korea Tourism Association that a total of 3,187 foreign tourists cancelled their reservations to visit [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – As the aftermath of the capsized ferry Sewol incident strikes hard Korea’s tourism industry, the tourism and transportation industries anguish over massive cancellations of reservations. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, based on surveys conducted by the Korea Tourism Association and the Korea Association of Travel [...]
![[Feature] Another Shame on Korea, Samsung’s “Poor” Crisis Management](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Samsung-Galaxy-S5-800x500.jpg "[Feature] Another Shame on Korea, Samsung’s “Poor” Crisis Management")
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, The Wall Street Journal published a story doubting the crisis management ability of the Korean government revealed in the tragic accident of the sunken ferry Sewol. In it, the world-renowned news media said the leadership of President Park Geun-hye is being tested with several mishaps committed [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Yellow Ribbon Campaign” is spreading out among Koreans who yearn for safe returns of the missing passengers who were on board of the capsized ferry “Sewol.” The campaign started with an online posting in a community forum site, which urged people to put up a picture [...]