SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 40 percent of South Koreans think air quality relatively improved last year from two years earlier, a survey showed Thursday, as fine dust air pollution declined amid the pandemic. Some 38.2 percent of those surveyed by the Statistics Research Institute said the country’s air quality improved last year, [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Korean consumers are gaining shopping information through the social media platform Instagram. Local pollster Open Survey recently conducted a survey of 1,000 local consumers. Among 675 consumers who had used Instagram within the past month, 33 percent followed the accounts of influencers, up 8.8 [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20 percent of South Korean smartphone users are at risk of being overly dependent on the devices, a survey showed Wednesday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said 23.3 percent of smartphone users in the country were at risk last year, up 3.3 percent from the previous [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is beginning to spark over new health insurance rules that impose monthly premiums of 40,000 won (US$35.04) on foreign students, starting this month. Some students from Southeast Asia began to consider giving up on education because of the new health insurance premiums, while others have made illegal attempts [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Graduation albums containing personal names and photos are being exploited for criminal activities. In one case, a student’s parents ended up stalking a teacher after finding the teacher’s photo in the student’s graduation album. The albums were also used to voice phish old teachers by criminals pretending to be [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul attracted a record US$10.2 billion in foreign direct investment last year despite the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic, the city government said Wednesday. Last year was also the second consecutive year FDI in the capital city topped $10 billion, continuing an upward trend since 2017, according to [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. said Wednesday they are targeting a 23 percent on-year gain in China sales this year. Hyundai and Kia aim to sell a combined 817,000 vehicles in China in 2021, up from 664,744 units a year earlier, a Hyundai spokesman said. To help [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, has succeeded in reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases using advanced telecommunications technology. The company announced on Tuesday that it had reduced the use of electricity by integrating and upgrading its 3G and LTE network equipment, and the reduction of greenhouse [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the rapid growth of the e-commerce market resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for logistics warehouses that are needed for storing, loading, unloading and sorting cargo is growing at a healthy pace. The online real estate information provider Real Estate 114 analyzed the cases [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to recapture the top spot in global smartphone production in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Tuesday, with the release of its new flagship smartphone. The South Korean tech giant is estimated to produce 62 million smartphones in the January-March period [...]