SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul taxi driver who caused public outrage by blocking an ambulance transferring an emergency patient was handed a two-year prison term by a local court on Wednesday. The Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced the 31-year-old taxi driver to two years in prison on charges of assault, fraud and [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul taxi driver who caused public outrage by blocking an ambulance transferring an emergency patient was formally arrested Friday. The Seoul Eastern District Court granted an arrest warrant for the 31-year-old driver, citing the possibility that he may flee or destroy evidence. The court said his charges have [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A taxi driver burned himself to death Wednesday in an apparent protest of the introduction of carpooling services by the country’s taxi-hailing app operators. The 76-year-old man, identified only by his surname, Ahn, set fire on himself at around 3:19 a.m. near Seoul Plaza in central Seoul, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A cabbie presumed to have set himself and his taxi on fire in another apparent suicide protest over a planned commercial ride-sharing service, died in hospital early Thursday, police said. A sedan taxi near Gwanghwamun Station in central Seoul caught fire on Wednesday night. The driver, only identified by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul taxi driver died after setting himself on fire in front of the National Assembly on Monday, apparently in protest of the planned launch of a ride-sharing service by a local information technology enterprise. The driver, identified only as 57-year-old with the surname Choi, sprinkled flammable materials on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Cabinet approved a law revision Tuesday to toughen the punishment for taxi drivers who rip off passengers. Under the revision, a taxi driver who is caught three times for overcharging a customer will face the maximum punishment of having his business license nullified. Previously, a taxi driver who [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao’s ‘Kakao Taxi‘ taxi-reservation app has seen its number of taxi driver subscribers and net users reach 70,000 and 920,000 respectively. It appears that the number of taxi drivers working for Kakao Taxi even surpasses the number of call-taxis, of which there are 63,000 out of 280,000 taxis [...]