SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is set to introduce swifter penalties for non-custodial parents who defy court orders to pay child support, including travel bans and driver’s license suspensions if the amount in arrears is over 30 million won or they are delinquent on more than three payments. The Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In a legal dispute surrounding the planned closure of Myongji University’s Go department, the only such program in the world, a court has rejected a request by professors and students to suspend the university’s admission plan that would discontinue new student enrollment. According to legal circles, the Seoul Southern District [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — After hosting an inaugural summit with 48 African nations last week, President Yoon Suk Yeol is now heading to Central Asia for another round of “sales diplomacy” aimed at enhancing economic partnerships with resource-rich nations. Yoon kicked off a weeklong trip to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on Monday for [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has completed the development of a high-tech radar system expected to bolster the military’s surveillance capabilities along the coastline, the state arms procurement agency said Monday. The GPS-240K, which was developed to replace the existing radar system that had been in operation for more than 25 years, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports to the United States exceeded those to China so far this year, data showed Monday, raising the possibility that the U.S. could be the top export destination for South Korea for the first time in 22 years. Outbound shipments to the U.S. amounted to $53.3 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government ordered community doctors to keep providing medical treatment and report to authorities when they close their businesses, after the doctors voted to stage a strike in protest of the government’s medical reform. Cho issued the order a day after the Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has sent around 310 trash-carrying balloons across the border overnight, South Korea’s military said Monday, amid escalating tensions over the North’s repeated balloon campaign to which South Korea has responded with the resumption of loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts after six years. The latest batch of waste-loaded balloons sent [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) – A North Korean defectors’ group said Saturday that it has sent additional propaganda leaflets critical of the North Korean regime across the border, heightening concerns that Pyongyang may resume sending balloons filled with trash in retaliation. Ten large balloons, carrying approximately 200,000 leaflets criticizing North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, were [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has notably increased his public activities related to the military over the past three months, according to a new analysis by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a think tank in Seoul. In a report titled “Analysis of the North Korean Leadership’s Public Activities [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – On the 31st anniversary of Samsung’s famous “New Management” declaration by its late chairman, Lee Kun-hee, a sense of crisis is gripping the tech giant as it grapples with declining profits and an unprecedented labor dispute. Since Lee’s groundbreaking speech in Frankfurt in 1993, where he warned that Samsung risked [...]