At 7:58 a.m. on Friday morning, a Subway Line No. 8 train headed for Amsa Station in Seoul came to a stop at Sujin Station in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Subway operation on Subway Line No. 8 was delayed for 20 minutes due to an electrical failure. (Yonhap)At 8:16 a.m., 18 minutes later, Seoul Metro moved the broken train to a subway train garage, and resumed operations using another train. The accident caused inconvenience for commuters on their way to work.Subway Line No. 7 service was delaye

Young people preparing to start their own businesses will get assistance from the Seoul Metropolitan Government in the form of housing.A groundbreaking ceremony for the new project was held Thursday afternoon in Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. (Yonhap)Daechi-dong is a district where major companies that provide assistance to startups are concentrated, such as Google Campus, D-camp and Tips Town S1. The entrepreneurs will be able to occupy the rental units for up to 10 years and pay only 400,000

Temperatures will drop significantly Friday, with heavy snowfall, on the coldest day according to Korea’s traditional 24 seasonal divisions.Morning lows will vary from minus 12 to 2 degrees Celsius, with highs of minus 5 to minus 3 C during the day. (Yonhap)The morning temperature in Cheorwon and Daegwallyeong, Gangwon Province, will plunge to minus 12 C, while Seoul will see the mercury drop to minus 9 C. Cold air coming from the northwest will bring down temperatures. With temperatures in some

The police investigation into the rupture of a hot water pipeline near Baekseok Station in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, is set to expand to employees of subcontractors who were in charge of maintaining, repairing and inspecting the pipe involved. (Lee So-jeong/The Korea Herald)According to police sources, the heat pipeline maintenance and inspection companies had used subcontractors for the work. “We will call in the employees of each company to continue the investigation,” police said.Police confi

An underground pipe carrying hot water burst Tuesday evening north of Seoul, killing one and injuring 22 others. The incident near Baekseok Subway Station in Ilsan -- a district within Goyang, Gyeonggi Province -- left nearly 3,000 homes without heat or hot water, fire authorities said.A 69-year-old man was found dead in the back seat of a car after apparently being trapped there.“The victim seems to have suffered burns from the hot water that rushed into the car right after the accident, but th

Over a hundred suspects have been arrested for making and distributing illegal film and child pornography, using overseas-based social media channels such as Tumblr and Twitter, police said Tuesday. (Northern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency Website)According to the Cyber Security Team of Northern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, 101 people were arrested on charges of violating the Act on the Protection of Children and Juveniles From Sexual Abuse. Of those, nine suspects were indicted via a s

The first cold wave warning will be issued at 11 p.m. Tuesday, as temperatures plummet after Tuesday’s rain. (Yonhap)According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, the cold wave warning will take effect in most parts of the country at 11 p.m., including Seoul, Daejeon, Incheon, Gyeonggi, North Gyeongsang, North and South Chungcheong, Gangwon and North Jeolla provinces.Temperatures in Seoul will plummet below minus 4 degrees Celsius Wednesday morning, with a daytime high of 4 C expected. B

From next summer, South Koreans will likely spend less time at the immigration lines at UK airports.South Korea and Singapore will be added to the list of countries whose nationals will be eligible to use e-passport gates to enter the UK from summer 2019, the UK’s home secretary said Monday.  (Heathrow Airport website)An estimated 400,000 Korean passengers per year will be able to take advantage of the automated gates, which use face-recognition technology to allow eligible passengers to be proc

Heat waves were legally classified as natural disasters in September, so victims can now receive government support. To be eligible, applicants must have been in the affected areas during the relevant time frames and must produce medical documentation certifying that they suffered from heatstroke or other heat-related illnesses. (Ministry of the Interior and Safety)Those who were hospitalized for heat-related illnesses during a heat wave warning and died later are eligible to apply for governmen

This past June, Kim Tae-hyung finally achieved his long-held dream of running his own food business but with minimal risk.The one-man restaurant, Seoul Poke, specializes in Hawaiian food and runs 100 percent on takeout. There’s no dining area. What’s unusual about this new startup is that Kim saved massively on his initial investment by forgoing not just an eat-in venue but also the purchase of kitchen appliances, which together often account for a huge proportion of a new restaurateur’s outlay.

While most South Koreans wish to become public servants, in reality they strive to land jobs in the corporate world, a survey showed Friday.According to a Saramin HR, South Korea’s online job recruiting matching platform that surveyed 1,143 adults on job preferences, 66.6 percent of 404 job seekers answered that their desired job and their actual target did not match.  To a question asking which jobs they desired the most, irrelevant to how realistic it was, 26.7 percent said working

Samsung SDI, the battery-making unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, will be expanding its battery pack plant for electric vehicles in the Unites States, the company said Thursday. Samsung SDI will be investing over $62 million to extend its existing plant in Auburn Hills in Michigan nearby Detroit. (Yonhap)The company had acquired the electric battery pack plant that had been owned by Magna Steyr, an automobile manufacturer based in Graz and Austria.Industry insiders predict that the expansion

The market for used cars is expanding rapidly, with anticipated sales this year likely to exceed the 2016 record of 3.78 million units, data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport showed Thursday.According to the ministry, 3.16 million used vehicles were registered upon purchase between January and October this year, up 1.2 percent from about 3.12 million tallied in the same time period last year.  An SK Encar representative inspects a used car. (SK Encar)Over the past five year

Samsung Display has been engaged in social acitivities designed for teenagers and the underprivileged throughout this year as part of the firm’s corporate social responsibility program, the company said Tuesday.For teenagers, the firm has supported students in promoting the importance of reading with a project called “BOM (Bread of Mind) Dream” since 2014.  Participants attend the 2018 BOM Dream Awards ceremony. (Samsung Display)The program involved remodeling school libraries and providing othe

Incheon International Airport signed a memorandum of understanding with San Miguel Holdings to push ahead with a project to develop a new airport in Manila in the Philippines, the firm said Monday.  Chung Il-young (right), president of Incheon International Airport, and Ramon See Ang, CEO of the San Miguel Holdings Corporation pose for cooperative partnership‘s signing ceremony of new Manila Airport project at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. (IIAC)The new project of Manila aims to set up an

Fine dust levels are expected to remain “bad” across the nation Monday, and will be accompanied by thick fog in some areas. The fog is expected to last throughout the day in South Korea’s inland and west coast areas.Bad fine dust levels are forecast for the capital area as well as Gangwon Province, North Chungcheong Province, North Jeolla Province, Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, according to the Air Quality Forecasting Center within the National Institute of Environment Research. Fine dust

The combined training on foreign stock given to private banking managers at Samsung Securities surpassed the 25,000-hour mark, as part of their enhanced focus on raising global investment capabilities, the firm said Sunday. This means, an inidivual PB manager received an average of 30 hours of training. Private Banking managers of Samsung Securities pose for a photo at Twitter in San Francisco. (Samsung Securities)Samsung Securities sent their “Global PB Research Group” to Vietnam, Japan, and th

As the peak shopping season approaches, with Black Friday falling in the US this week and the holiday season next month, consumers are at an increased risk of fraud when using cross-border shopping sites, the Seoul Electronic Commerce Center said Thursday. The center under the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it had handled eight consumer complaints against Rogervi2018, an online shopping site that purported to sell products from the French luxury shoe brand Roger Vivier, owned by To

Mirae Asset Global Investments has become the first South Korean asset management company to qualify as a private equity fund operator in China, officials said Wednesday. Mirae Asset Global Investments websiteMirae Asset Overseas Investment Fund Management Shanghai, the Chinese office of Mirae Asset Global Investment, has registered with the Asset Management Association of China as a private fund management wholly foreign-owned enterprise.The Korean company became the 16th overseas financial com

Encouraged by its expanding battery cells business, analysts here are raising their estimates of the value of SK Innovation amid a series of new orders and investment plans by the firm.SK Innovation(Yonhap)SK Innovation, the owner of South Korea’s biggest refiner, SK Energy, is expected to see its corporate value in 2022 increase by 14 trillion won from the current level, according analyst Lee Do-yeon of Korea Investment and Securities Co. Added to the current value, the figure in four years cou