SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans believe that establishing a social practice of resting when sick is important to prevent a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, a survey showed Monday. A survey conducted by a team led by Professor You Myoung-soon from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health included 1,000 Koreans aged [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases reached below 20,000 on average last week amid the country’s all-out move to pre-pandemic normalcy, health authorities said Monday. The country reported a daily average of 17,722 new infections for the week of May 30-June 5, bringing the total caseload to 31,789,625, the Korea [...]
BUSAN, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In the film “A Time to Kill (1996),” a black father takes the law into his own hands when he shoots and kills two white men in a courtroom. He commits this act of vigilante justice as a response to the rape of his young daughter by two white [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — During the peak of the pandemic between 2020 and 2022, South Korea grappled with a troubling reality: the number of suicides, totaling 39,267, exceeded the count of coronavirus-related deaths, which stood at 32,056. This disconcerting trend has sparked serious concerns within the country. According to a recent report from [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 3 out of 10 South Korean senior citizens work low-wage jobs after retirement to help cover their living costs, and their poverty rate still remains high among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Sunday. The employment rate among those [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases stayed below 20,000 for the second consecutive day Saturday. The country reported 18,663 new infections, bringing the total caseload to 31,766,502, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Daily infections remained below 20,000 for the six days through Tuesday but rose above [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last three years, career interruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic have become a serious problem among South Korean women, with a higher percentage of them experiencing career interruptions compared to men, and it takes longer for them to return to the job market. The Ministry of Gender [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Divorced couples in South Korea have completely different perceptions of each other, a survey showed Thursday. Matchmaking agencies Only You and Bien-Aller conducted a survey of 532 divorced men and women. In the survey, 34.2 percent of men said they would maintain a cordial relationship with their ex-wives, while [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 20,000 on Friday as almost all pandemic-related restrictions were lifted this month. The country reported 19,724 new infections, including 33 imported cases, bringing the total caseload to 31,747,839, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. Daily infections remained below 20,000 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s middle class experienced a heavier burden from the country’s steep inflation in 2022 compared with the lower- and upper-income brackets, data showed Friday. According to an experimental report released by Statistics Korea, the on-year rise in consumer prices for the middle class came to 5.2 percent in [...]