SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly half of South Koreans households have suffered some kind of crisis, with financial difficulties cited as the prime culprit, a poll showed Sunday. According to the survey of 1,500 people aged 20-64 taken by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs in July last year, some 46 percent said they have endured a family crisis during their lifetime. The state [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – There have no batter problems reported in Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus smartphones since their launch in April, industry sources said Sunday. The company’s new flagship went on sale on April 21 following the halt of the production and recall of the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 phablet due to some units catching fire while [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Earlier this week, the special advisory committee of state affairs planning — a presidential transition team appointed by President Moon Jae-in — reaffirmed one of Moon’s campaign pledges to raise the minimum wage to 10,000 won by 2020 at a press briefing held in central Seoul. The spokesperson of [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Air Lines Co.’s passenger jet made an emergency landing at an airport in southern Japan due to smoke in the cockpit, the company said Friday. It said there were no injuries or damage caused by the incident. The B737-900 jet left the port city of Busan at 09:11 [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Two Korean royal seals from the 16th and 17th centuries will return to South Korea, decades after they were illegally carried out of the country, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) said Friday. The CHA said that it will soon recover the Royal Seal of Queen Munjeong and the Royal [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly seven in ten Seoul residents say they have little to no hope of moving up the social ladder, giving social equality in South Korean society a score of 4.5 on a scale of one to ten. When asked about the prospects of improving their social and financial status [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Almost half of Seoulites in their 30s live in rented housing, leaving them with the heaviest rent burden among all age groups in the city. The surprising findings of the 2017 Seoul Survey – an urban planning indicator survey – revealed the growing number of single and two-person households [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign students learning the Korean language outside the Korean Peninsula swelled by over 50,000 from 2011-2016 to top 115,000, government data showed Friday. A total of 1,309 elementary and secondary schools in 27 foreign countries were operating Korean language courses as of 2016, up 88.3 percent [...]
SEJONG, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government announced yesterday plans to reduce dental cavities among children by up to 20 percent amid growing concerns over figures pointing to the high risk of dental problems facing the country. According to a policy blueprint concerning the dental health of South Koreans from 2017 to [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s prosecution has for the first time put on trial online shopping websites for selling what are commonly referred to as ‘plastic surgery coupons’ to customers in collusion with plastic surgery hospitals. Despite the argument that the practice is nothing more than a marketing strategy, South Korean prosecutors [...]