SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven in 10 Seoul citizens find South Korea “severely” unequal, a poll has suggested. According to the city government’s survey unveiled Monday, 26.5 percent said inequality in the society is “very severe” and 42.3 percent “severe.” As the areas with the worst inequality, 41.1 percent picked “building assets, such as real [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A bill has recently been proposed to consider pet insurance as equivalent to human insurance plans, raising new controversies as to how pets are to be identified in insurance programs. The bill, proposed by Rep. Kim Byung-wook of the ruling Democratic Party, intends to consider pet insurance plans as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans felt traditional holidays, which some criticize for putting too much pressure on women, are becoming fairer for both genders, a poll showed Saturday. Asked what they thought about gender equality within families during the Chuseok holiday last year, 43.2 percent said they felt circumstances have improved in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of the teenage school dropouts in Seoul have left school because they “could not find the meaning of school,” a recent report showed. According to a survey conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute on 753 of the teenagers who quit school from 2015 to last year, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first transgender soldier on Wednesday pleaded to be allowed to continue to serve after the military decided to discharge her. Byun Hee-soo, an Army staff sergeant in her 20s, voluntarily enlisted as a man in 2017 and underwent sex reassignment surgery in Thailand in November last year. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army said Wednesday it decided not to allow a noncommissioned officer who underwent sex reassignment surgery to continue to serve in the military as a female soldier. The decision was made in a military committee meeting that looked into the case of Byun Hee-soo, a 22-year-old staff sergeant [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of sex scandals involving famous celebrities in South Korea are pushing parents to educate their children about sex. “After the Jung Joon-young scandal, I felt that sex education at an early age is important,” a post on a local mom’s cafe, an online forum for mothers, said. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Sunday that it will invest 1 trillion won (US$863 million) in the next 10 years to nurture the next-generation semiconductor sector. According to the science ministry, cutting edge artificial intelligent (AI) and system-on-chip (SoC) technology, low energy consumption, high performance new devices and ultrafine fabrication processing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — In the face of a growing aged population, the index for the quality of life for the elderly in South Korea is below average compared to other member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In particular, South Korean ranked the lowest in social solidarity among [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — From now on, “social values” will be considered as important evaluation factors in the recruitment and promotion of civil servants, financial projects and public procurement. Analysts say that the government has come up with measures to enhance social values centering on the public sector in order to boost the [...]