SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans in their 10s and 20s think it is not necessary to have kids after marriage, a report showed Thursday, adding to concerns about the country’s chronic low birth rate. As of 2020, 32 percent of Koreans aged 13 or older said it is [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low in January, data showed Wednesday, underpinning the country’s chronically low birth rate. A total of 25,003 babies were born in January, down 6.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of NEETs — people who are unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training — marked a sharp increase in South Korea as the job environment deteriorated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report released on Sunday by the Hyundai Research Institute, the number [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The ‘well-being’ index and satisfaction levels for ‘social support’ of the older generation are higher among those who play digital games. Doh Young-yim, an invited professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, conducted a survey of 190 people between the ages of 50 and 60, which [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Food ingredient data will be developed and managed in the form of national standards, aimed at making it easier for such data to be used for the customized management of personal diet and the development of related services, a government technology standards agency said Thursday. The Korea Agency for [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans believe that quarantine policies take priority over human rights, a poll showed Wednesday. A survey conducted by Prof. Yoo Myung-soon from the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health with the participation of 1,000 men and women across the country showed that [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Criticism is growing over the moral hazard of some foreign diplomats in South Korea who are abusing the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The foreign diplomats and their families cannot be punished under domestic law even if they commit crimes. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, they are [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in South Korean battery makers plunged Tuesday after Volkswagen announced plans to produce its own batteries and gradually switch the type of battery used in its electric vehicles. The German carmaker said Monday it will build six battery factories in Europe to have a total capacity of 240 [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent protest march in South Korea by Buddhist monks and Myanmar activists calling for democracy in Myanmar by throwing their bodies to the ground is gaining attention in the Southeast Asian nation. Four monks from the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, joined by students and activists from Myanmar, [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — After the bullying accusations against South Korea’s twin volleyball stars Lee Jae-yeong and Lee Da-yeong gained media attention, the so-called ‘school violence me-too’ phenomenon is spreading even to the entertainment industry. The twin sisters are accused of having bullied fellow students when they were in school. School violence issues, [...]