![[Kobiz Feature] Aroma Candle, a New Popular Item for New Age Consumers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/16366953_9e24a602b5_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Aroma Candle, a New Popular Item for New Age Consumers")
SEOUL, Korea, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – There may be several different ways for anyone to recall past memories. Some may rely on browsing through old photo albums, personal journals, or letters. But some others are reminded of long forgotten memories from a whiff of smell. It is a well-established fact among scientists that olfactory memory is [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/사교육비-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student")
[Related Article] Overly Complicated College Entrance Screening Leads to Strange Job Titles (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Despite the government’s constant threat of crackdown on illegal tutoring on college-bound students, the so-called “college entrance exam consulting” is still thriving. Often it is evolving in quite unusual ways. Some of them visit the student’s house just before the [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] South Korea’s Richest and Corresponding Assets](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/국내부자자산규모-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] South Korea’s Richest and Corresponding Assets")
[Related Article] How Much the Rich in Korea Spare to Spend (Korea Bizwire, April 11) An average individual from the upper crust of Korea spares 1 million won each month as surplus fund and most likely to spend it on wheels.On April 10, Visa Card came up with survey analysis of the top 20 percent rich [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/배달앱-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps")
[Related Article] War of Food Delivery Apps (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes.The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1인당연간근로시간-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita")
[Related Article] Big Change ahead for S. Korea’s Labor Standards (Korea Bizwire, April 10) The discussion in the National Assembly surrounding cutting back on work hours is gradually converging on the introduction of a 52-hour workweek scheme.The subcommittee for labor-management-government negotiation for social issues under the National Assembly’s Environmental and Labor Committee held on April 7 [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Business Suspension among Top 3 Mobile Carriers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/이통사영업정지-영문1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Business Suspension among Top 3 Mobile Carriers")
[Related Article] Mobile Phone Retailers Demanding Compensation of Damages (Korea Bizwire, April 10) Korean mobile phone retailers gathered up and performed a symbolic ceremony in which they broke an ice containing a cell phone figurine to protest against the Korea government’s ongoing business suspension on mobile service providers. (see the full text of this news) Infographics [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – According to an infographic put out by the Seoul Institute on after-retirement plans for Seoul citizens, the average age of retirement considered appropriate was 64.2 years of age. The data was based on a survey on 1,000 houses whose family heads are aged between 20 and 69. By age [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Gallup Korea said on April 8 that the media most trusted by Koreans is TV. Based on a survey conducted for three days between March 31 and April 2 on 872 adult men and women, Gallup Korea found that 41 percent of respondents said they prefer the TV [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Smartphone Addiction Rate of Teens in Seoul](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/스마트폰중독-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Smartphone Addiction Rate of Teens in Seoul")
[Related Article] Greater Chances of Cyber-bullying among Smartphone-Dependent Teenagers (Korea Bizwire, April 9) The more teenagers are dependent on smartphones, the greater chances are that they will experience cyber-bullying. Also, more girls (22.8%) than boys (15.9%) and more senior students than juniors tend to be dependent on smartphones. (see the full text of this [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Volumes of Credit and Debit Cards Approved per Year](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/카드발급장수-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Volumes of Credit and Debit Cards Approved per Year")
[Related Article] Number of Credit Cards Issued Has Declined for the First Time (Korea Bizwire, April 9) Last year, the number of cards issued, both credit and debit, declined for the first time. According to the Bank of Korea’s “Payment and Settlement Report for 2013,” a total of 209.03 million cards were issued last year, [...]