SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Mi-jin, a housewife with two twin boys in her mid-30s, recently had an experience of almost dropping her four-year-old son on the tiled floor while taking him a bath in the bathtub. She said, “I am always worried whenever my kids run around in the house if [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of ten college students will seek their parents’ support for their wedding preparation and 40 percent of them will get their support even after their marriage, a survey said. According to Noble Alba, a part-time job information site, which conducted the survey asking 647 university students, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 5 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s a little bit annoying to receive and check text messages or Facebook alerts while driving and it can often cause a tragic accident. For those who want to check the message without being disrupted, getting a smartphone application reading the message out loud is the way to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As Japanese government provokes Koreans’ anti-Japanese sentiments by continuously claiming Korea’s far eastern island, Dokdo, as its own, Korea’s used car exporters began a campaign informing the world that the island is within Korea’s territorial boundary. Beginning on March 1, the Korea’s Automobile Exports Institute, an umbrella group [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Paddleboarding, or stand-up paddleboarding, originated from Hawaii where the natives used the board to cross from one island to another. The paddleboard is kind of related with surfing. The only difference is the paddleboarder uses a paddle on a surfing board. This surface water sport is quite easy [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said the biggest reason for women to quit being part of the economically active population was marriage. Up until now, the main reason for women’s career discontinuity was childrearing. A ccording to a report “How to Raise Women Employment Ratio” published by the Federation of Korean [...]
South Pasadena, CA, March 01, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – As a foreigner living in the land of Uncle Sam, author Bo Kyung Kim realized that as time passes, by her Korean culture is slowly meshing with that of the US culture. As she seeks to use her studies, her dance, and her songs, she invites readers [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey, quite a number of Korean women seeking a job wants to be a part-timer rather than a full-timer. According to the survey conducted by FindJob, a job portal, asking 909 women aged of or more 25 on their job preference, 44.2 percent responded [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – For those foreign tourists who want medical services in Korea, the Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) plans to run a “Concierge Service” that picks them up at the airport to designated medical facilities. From March this year, KTO will begin the full-fledged service at the Medical Tourism Information Center [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea National Park Service said on February 26 that the number of visitors to 21 national parks across the country last year was 47 million, up 15 percent from the previous year’s 41 million. The main reason for the rapid increase was Mt. Mudeung’s upgrade to the [...]