SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that teachers in South Korea face more than twice the risk of developing work-related mental illnesses compared to other civil servants, shedding light on a growing concern in the country’s education sector. The research, published in the latest issue of the international journal Occupational Medicine, [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. special envoy for global youth issues will travel to Korea’s southeastern city of Busan this week to attend the first-ever trilateral youth leadership program involving people from South Korea, the United States and Japan, the State Department said Tuesday. Abby Finkenauer plans to visit Busan from Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added fewer than 100,000 jobs for the second consecutive month in June due to the slowing growth of manufacturing jobs and the weak construction industry, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.91 million last month, up 96,000 from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Fire Agency of South Korea announced on July 9 that it would launch its first specialized program to train officiants for memorial services or commemoration ceremonies for firefighters nationwide. Officiants, known as “jipryegwan” in Korean, are responsible for overseeing memorial services and commemorative events. This initiative aims to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has notified hospitals that it will reduce next year’s quota of trainee doctors unless they accept their resignations by next week, according to officials and the medical community Tuesday. The move is seen as a measure to put pressure on trainee doctors, who have left their worksites [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In a global comparison of household debt burdens, South Korea emerged as having the fourth-highest ratio of debt payments to income among major economies last year, according to data released by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The report, published on July 7, reveals that South Korea’s debt service ratio [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A groundbreaking international study has shed light on the alarming prevalence of image-based sexual abuse, with South Korean women emerging as particularly vulnerable victims. The research, published in the academic journal “Human Behavior and Computing,” was conducted by professor Nicola Henry from RMIT University in Australia and Rebecca Umbach, a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Cho Hyun-moon, former vice president of Hyosung Corp. and estranged son of the company’s founding family, on Friday pledged to end his yearslong conflict with his brothers and donate an inheritance from his late father to society. At a press conference held in Seoul, Cho said he will donate [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has been weighing measures on how to deal with trainee doctors who refuse to return to hospitals in protest of medical reform, according to officials Friday. With most trainee doctors still remaining unresponsive to the government’s appeasement measures to help them return to hospitals, officials said the [...]
HWASEONG, South Korea, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A fire broke out at an ink manufacturing factory south of Seoul on Friday, but no casualties were reported, officials said. The blaze occurred at 7:15 a.m. at the factory in Hwaseong, 45 kilometers south of Seoul, before firefighters brought the flames under control about an hour [...]