SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners visiting South Korea for medical purposes decreased last year for the first time mainly due to the weak inbound traffic from China, government data showed Wednesday. According to the data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, a total of 321,574 foreigners arrived here in [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s sports ministry said Wednesday it will conduct an inspection of sexual harassment in pro sports. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said through the Korea Professional Sports Association (KPSA) that it will look into sexual harassment cases in the pro sports community. Five pro sports organizations [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The average monthly wage of employees in Seoul stood at 2.23 million won (US$2,088), data showed Wednesday. According to the data by Shinhan Bank, the average monthly wage of workers in the capital city’s Jongno district, where headquarters of big firms are located, stood at 3.55 million won. The [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The legal processes that ensure the labor rights of adolescents are being better observed than before, according to Seoul city officials. A study undertaken last year found that 53.6 percent of adolescents with “arbeit” jobs – part-time or non-regular employment work – had signed employment contracts, a 29.8 percentage [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s not just K-pop that is making inroads in the United States these days, as Korean history is taking a more prominent place in world history textbooks for American students. Choi Mi-young, head of the non-profit organization ECHO-Korea, said she recently visited a showcase of history textbooks designated for [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80 reports of “molca”, the Korean word denoting the surreptitious filming of women’s bodies, came out of Seoul’s Hongik Univ. Station on Line 2, the subway station servicing the Hongik University neighborhood highly popular with foreign tourists and South Korean youth. Among the undesirable “top ten” subway [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group TWICE has sold over 2.2 million albums in South Korea since its debut, data showed on Tuesday. The combined number of records sold by the nine-member act stood at 2,222,981 as of Sunday, JYP Entertainment said, citing data from Gaon Chart, South Korea’s main music sales tracker. [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Less than half of parents in South Korea are pleased with the quality of teaching their children are getting from school, the lowest among the countries surveyed, an international poll showed Tuesday. Forty-three percent of 1,000 respondents with kids aged 4-18 said they find the education provided to their [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — BGF Retail Co., the operator of South Korea’s largest convenience store chain CU, said it signed a franchise deal with a Mongolian company on Tuesday, as the firm moves to accelerate its global drive amid fierce domestic competition. Under the agreement, local retailer Central Express will take charge of [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The welcome arrival of warmer weather is bringing with it an unlikely source of stress for many involved. According to wedding consulting agency Duowed, the spring months of May and April fall behind the autumn period from October through November as the second most important unofficial “wedding season” in [...]