SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A person experiencing a heart attack has twice the likelihood of survival if they receive immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), a government survey showed Wednesday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) conducted a survey of 17,596 individuals who had heart attacks and were transported to a hospital. The [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The international age counting system was officially implemented in South Korea on Wednesday, replacing the nation’s traditional methods of counting age and making all Koreans one or two years younger. The international system counts a person’s age from zero at birth, whereas the abolished traditional systems added one or [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea hit yet another fresh low in April, data showed Wednesday, further extending the decline in the population of Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Only 18,484 babies were born in April this year, sinking 12.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the monthly [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Several hundreds of people who have regional and school connections with construction tycoon Lee Joong-keun have been paid a surprise financial windfall of up to 100 million won (US$77,000) each without any conditions, some of the beneficiaries said Wednesday. Lee, the 82-year-old chairman of construction and real estate conglomerate [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Women’s burden of domestic work, such as cleaning and childcare, continues even into old age, an analysis of data showed Tuesday. Statistics Korea analyzed the lifecycle deficit using the newly-developed NTTA (National Time Transfer Accounts) statistics. The analysis revealed that the younger generation, aged 0 to 14, had a [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans have a vague fear of medical radiation examinations due to insufficient information, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) among 3,000 adults aged 18 to 69 across the country, approximately half of the [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A post recently appeared on an online secondhand marketplace where products from the U.S. burger franchise Five Guys were being resold at higher prices. Five Guys on Monday opened its first South Korean restaurant in Seoul’s Gangnam neighborhood. Despite the rainy weather, around 400 people braved the long line, [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of the park golf courses built along waterways such as the Nakdong River and the Han River have been found to be illegal. Park golf is gaining popularity as a sport among the aging population, but it is also becoming a social problem due to its negative [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Prioritizing efficiency, which involves saving even a few seconds, is becoming a new trend among Generation MZ, a Korean portmanteau for millennials and Gen Z. Park, a 31-year-old office worker, enjoys watching YouTube videos that provide 10-minute summaries of films or television shows. “There are numerous things to watch, [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The relative poverty rate among retired seniors in South Korea is the highest among all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member states, data showed Monday. According to data released by Statistics Korea, the relative poverty rate for South Korean seniors aged over 66 was 43.2 percent in [...]