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[Kobiz Feature] Aroma Candle, a New Popular Item for New Age Consumers

[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

[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] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps

[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

[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

[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 [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Smartphone Addiction Rate of Teens in Seoul

[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 [...]