SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea extended a natural decrease in population in June as the fertility rate hit yet another record low, data showed Wednesday, reflecting the grim demographic trend. Only 18,615 babies were born in June, down 1.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the monthly report from Statistics Korea. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The police have made the decision to provide each local police officer, including those stationed at district and police boxes, with a firearm within a three-year timeframe, according to NPA’s announcement on Tuesday. This initiative includes the issuance of a .38 revolver as well as a low-risk revolver (or [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The percentage of young adults who hold a favorable view of marriage has significantly decreased compared to a decade ago, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, only 36.4 percent of young adults expressed a positive attitude towards marriage in May 2022, marking a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Calls for the right to take breaks during heatwaves are intensifying in South Korea, as summers grow hotter due to climate change. Over the last five years, a total of 23 workers have succumbed to heat-related ailments such as heatstroke, heat exhaustion, and heat cramps while on the job. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — After Japan commenced the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japanese individuals staying or visiting South Korea appear to be exercising great caution. The majority of them take the stance of comprehending the concerns of Koreans and having confidence in the Japanese government’s official statements. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Whenever there are stabbing incidents in recent days, real-time on-site videos of these events are uploaded to the Internet, causing citizens to experience fatigue. Last Saturday, a man in his late 30s was arrested in the parking lot of a residential building in the Seoul’s northwestern ward of Eunpyeong, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety ministry said Monday it has asked the Korea Cosmetics Association and the Korea Communications Commission to prevent access to and remove 155 online cosmetics advertisements that make claims about their effectiveness, like aiding with ‘diet’ or ‘body shape maintenance’. The ministry also requested that administrative bodies overseeing [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has a smaller infant and toddler population compared to other East Asian countries, a research institute said Sunday. According to a report from the Korea Insurance Research Institute, Asia’s fourth-largest economy had 1.65 million children aged 0 to 4 as of 2021. If we use Japan’s population as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government spending on public pensions, a primary means of addressing senior poverty, is merely half of the expenditure of other countries within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Sunday. According to Pensions at a Glance 2021 published by the Paris-based organization, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The presidential office has designed a T-shirt and a hat to commemorate the 46 sailors killed in North Korea’s 2010 sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, an official said Monday. The items bear the vessel’s formal name, PCC-772, and were worn by President Yoon Suk Yeol and first [...]