SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A contingent of South Korean sailors departed for waters off Somalia earlier this week as part of a regular rotation of troops conducting anti-piracy operations in the region, the Navy said Friday. The ROKS Yang Man-chun destroyer, carrying the 41st rotation of the Cheonghae unit, left the naval base [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has been elected to the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to serve for the 2023-2025 period, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. South Korea has been named as the board member representing the Far East group during the 67th general conference held at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will supply 120,000 public homes in addition to the existing plan to deliver 2.7 million new homes by 2027 to offset the declining private-sector home supply amid higher lending rates, the land ministry said Tuesday. In August last year, the government announced the public home supply plan [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee on Monday passed a resolution denouncing Japan for laying claims to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo and approving school textbooks containing such claims. The resolution had originally passed through the committee in June, but the committee decided to pass it again [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Hospitals will be required to install surveillance cameras in operating rooms and record surgery procedures at the request of patients starting next week, the health ministry said Friday. The revised Medical Service Act, set to take effect Monday, also calls for storing recorded videos for at least 30 days, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Russian Embassy in Seoul on Thursday expressed “deep regret” over President Yoon Suk Yeol’s speech condemning military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow at the United Nations and accused him of joining Washington’s “propaganda campaign.” During his keynote address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday (U.S. time), Yoon [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) –Police will push for a blanket ban on assemblies and demonstrations from midnight to 6 a.m. to minimize public inconvenience from large-scale illegal gatherings, the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) said Thursday. The KNPA said it will push to stipulate the “midnight-to-6 a.m. gathering ban” in the Law on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly was set to vote Thursday on two separate motions seeking the arrest of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung and the dismissal of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo. The motions will be put to an anonymous vote during a plenary session in the afternoon. The motion requesting parliamentary consent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to permit the sale of exchange-traded funds tracking the greenhouse gas emission trading market beginning next year as part of efforts to activate the country’s sluggish emission trading, officials said Wednesday. The move by the government’s emission rights allocation committee comes as trading prices of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) –The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been in discussions with China over establishing a joint information mechanism over the water discharge from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, similar to the agency’s arrangement with South Korea, according to the agency’s chief. In light of the water discharge that began [...]