SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea reached yet another record low in October, data showed Wednesday, underscoring the country’s chronic low birthrate. A total of 20,658 babies were born in October, down 0.4 percent from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is seeking to revise laws to increase financial transparency of labor unions to make it harder for improper spending to take place, the labor minister said Monday. The proposal comes after a series of remarks by President Yoon Suk Yeol who emphasized bolstering oversight of unions. He [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Monday declared “zero tolerance” for rush-hour subway protests by members of a disability advocacy group, pledging to take all possible legal action to stop them from disrupting subway services. Since late last year, the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) has staged subway-riding protests at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese restaurant in southern Seoul, suspected of having functioned as a secret Chinese police station, is said to discontinue business next month, restaurant officials said Friday. The restaurant has received media attention after the Spain-based human rights watchdog Safeguard Defenders insisted early this month that China was operating [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Home-owning young South Koreans have more positive views toward marriage than those who do not own a home, the statistics agency said Wednesday. Statistics Korea analyzed the statistical data of the unmarried South Korean population between the ages of 19 and 34 as stipulated in the Social Survey 2020, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four students in South Korea have no future job preference, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training conducted a nationwide survey of 22,702 elementary, middle and high school students, among which 19.3 percent of elementary school [...]
DAEGU, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A controversy broke out after several residents in the southeastern city of Daegu announced they would stage a pork-eating event near the construction site of a mosque. The anti-mosque committee in Buk Ward in Daegu said that will hold an “end-of-year party” 50 or 60 meters away from the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A teenage survivor of the deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood has been found dead in an apparent suicide, police said Thursday. Police found the high schooler dead at an accommodation in western Seoul at 11:40 p.m. on Monday while searching the area following a report from his [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of the recently married couples in South Korea had no children in 2021, data showed Monday, amid the country’s chronic low birthrate and changing social norms. Some 45.8 percent of the country’s 871,428 couples who were legally married in the five years up to November 2021 did [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Gender, Equality and Family on Thursday announced plans to support various forms of family, including single-person households. The plan seeks to provide hospital escorts and emergency care services for single-person households through local family centers, and ensure a child’s rearing expenses are paid for. There are 244 [...]