SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With Koreans getting married at older ages due to shifts in values and demographic circumstances, brides in their early 40s now outnumber those in their early 20s, data showed Monday. According to Statistics Korea’s Korean Statistical Information Service (KOSIS), 10,949 women between the ages of 40 and 44 got [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With consumer prices continuing to rise, college students and job seekers are increasingly struggling with living expenses and education fees. Recently, a growing number of secondhand textbooks and online course vouchers are being exchanged on online second-hand platforms and online college communities. “I can’t do anything about rising food [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases rose back to the 12,000 level Tuesday, the day after the country lifted its mask mandate on public transportation. The country reported 12,016 new COVID-19 infections, including 17 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,714,976, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean workers do not take about 30 percent of their annual leave on average, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey of 22,000 workers between the ages of 19 and 59 conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the number of days of annual [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to the lowest daily tally in about nine months on Monday, the first day of completely lifting the indoor mask mandate on public transportation. The country reported 3,930 new COVID-19 infections, including 14 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,702,960, the [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Most commuters remained masked up on Monday, the first day the yearslong mask mandate was lifted for public transportation, as many stay wary of lingering infection risks and under peer pressure to wear a mask in public spaces. Wearing a mask is no longer mandatory on public transportation, such [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent survey conducted by business card management app Remember Remember and Korea Management Association Consulting, 83 percent of 1,000 Korean employees have considered changing jobs or leaving their current company. The survey, which was carried out in December last year, found that most respondents were from “MZ [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Most victims of school violence make plans for revenge, a survey showed Sunday. The Psychiatry Association for Korean Schools conducted a survey of 65 psychiatrists, 78.5 percent of whom said that they had treated victims of school violence before. Among them, 90.2 percent treated those who had the intention [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign students are struggling with housing contracts, but there isn’t enough support to assist them. A Vietnamese student at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, ran into a series of difficulties last December when he was signing a sharehouse contract. The Korean words for monthly [...]
POHANG, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean steelmaker POSCO is offering special hiring benefits to service members from the Marine Corps who joined the relief efforts when super Typhoon Hinnamnor hit the country. The company decided to exempt service members recommended by the commander of the 1st Marine Division, stationed the southeastern city of [...]