SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – CNBLUE frontman Jung Yong-hwa is set to enlist in the armed forces come March 5, according to an announcement made on January 26 by his talent agency FNC Entertainment. The surprisingly sudden decision to fulfil his national duty, after it was revealed that Jung was investigated by police for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Jobseekers in their 50s and older are increasingly looking for part-time work, a recent analysis has found. Through part-time job site Albamon, the margin of growth in new resumes registered with the service every January from 2014 to 2018 was highest for jobseekers 50 and above. A total of [...]
SEONGNAM, CHEONGJU, DAEGU, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In the midst of a mid-February stretch when graduation ceremonies nationwide are seemingly held every other day, students, parents, and educators are taking pains to commemorate youngsters’ achievements in creative and beneficial ways. A visit to one graduation event at an elementary school in Gyeonggi Province revealed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – An ad hoc presidential healthcare subcommittee has announced a medical diagnostic and consulting system which can predict the onset of illness based on hospital records, prescription history, one’s individual genetic database and information on day-to-day habits and behaviors will begin development. This system is included in the subcommittee’s core [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Ailing Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee has been booked for suspected tax evasion by keeping about 400 billion won (US$367.8 million) in hundreds of different accounts created under borrowed names, police said Thursday. The special investigation unit of the National Police Agency said it referred Lee, South Korea’s richest [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 adolescent teens in South Korea and one-fifth of children are at risk of becoming addicted to their smartphones, a survey showed Thursday. According to the survey conducted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and the National Information Society Agency (NIA), 30.9 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Though the South Korean public considers the introduction of diseases originating abroad (MERS, ebola, avian influenza) a serious problem, the percentage of those who believe that they themselves are at risk of contracting one of these diseases was found to be low. In a survey of 1,000 adults carried [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of nine women working in the film industry have been on the receiving end of undesired sexual overtures, and one out of five have either been touched without their consent or coerced into touching another. Documents from the office of politician Yoo Seong-yeop on February 7 revealed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The scale of the company one works for (labor demand), not individual experience or level of educational attainment (labor supply), plays a significant role in widening the wage inequality gap among salaried workers, a research paper has found. The paper revealed that wage inequality attributable to labor supply began [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Faculty at the elite Seoul National University business school have created a new class teaching corporate ethics that will be a core requirement for students going forward. Starting this spring term, the class, titled “Corporate Philosophy and Ethics” will be mandatory for business management students in their freshman year. [...]