SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The most common Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) type among the wealthiest individuals in South Korea is ESTJ — extraverted, sensing, thinking and judging — a report showed Monday. According to the report by the Hana Institute for Finance, 26.8 percent of the country’s superrich were ESTJ, which is three [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is reviewing the idea of revising the law to enable criminal punishment against non-custodial parents who intentionally avoid paying child support without a court detention order. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family deliberated and resolved the basic plan established together by related ministries at the society-related [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases stayed below 10,000 for the second straight day Monday due to fewer tests over the weekend. The country reported 4,005 new COVID-19 infections, including eight cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,918,060, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The [...]
BUSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) —The Busan Nambu Police Station reported on Monday that they have arrested four individuals, including a delivery driver, and booked nine others without detention for violating the Specialized Credit Finance Business Act by illegally copying credit cards handed over by customers. Delivery driver A and others are accused of using [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean authorities are convening a high-level “Council of Related Agencies Responding to Drug Crimes” on Monday to tackle the growing number of drug-related incidents, including the recent case in which beverages laced with narcotics were handed out to students at cram schools in Seoul’s Gangnam district. The meeting, [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s superrich had an average of 32.3 billion won (US$24.5 million) of assets last year, and their yearly income came to about 1.23 billion won, a report showed Sunday. The Hana Institute for Finance, affiliated with major lender Hana Bank, defined the superrich in its report as those [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of single-member households were in the poor class and the proportion among senior citizens came to nearly 70 percent, a report showed Sunday. The relative poverty rate of one-person households came to 47.2 percent in 2020, compared with 15.3 percent for all households, according to the report [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases remained above 10,000 for the fifth straight day Saturday, as public gatherings increase amid warmer weather. The country reported 10,372 new COVID-19 infections, including 12 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,904,502, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling party lawmaker on Friday proposed a bill allowing for the death penalty for those convicted of drugging minors amid public outrage over a recent drug scam targeting students. The revision to the Narcotics Control Act tabled by Rep. Yoo Gyeong-joon of the People Power Party calls for [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenage drug offenders more than octupled in South Korea last year compared with about a decade earlier, a minor opposition party said Friday. Teenagers apprehended for using drugs totaled 481 last year, jumping more than eight times from 58 in 2013, the Justice Party said, citing [...]