SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Tunisia was named the country that sent the largest number of international spam phone calls to South Korea last year, data showed Thursday. Mobile virtual network operator SK Telink Co. unveiled the list of the top ten spam-sending countries on the basis of its analysis of international spam calls [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The academic performance of a child became more reliant on the wealth of their parents in the last 10 years, a study showed Wednesday. Professor Kim Seong-sik from Seoul National University of Education reported during a forum at the National Assembly on Tuesday that according to the Korea Educational Development Institute, the inequality [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mentions about job transfers and quitting jobs have increased in the last three years over the pandemic, a Seoul-based PR agency said Wednesday. KPR & Associates, Inc. conducted a big data study of 190,000 mentions about job transfers and resignations online, in which 132,000 mentions were made in 2022, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A drunk person who drove his car 40 kilometers from Seoul to Incheon was caught by his cellphone’s automatic reporting system, police said Wednesday. Incheon Jungbu Police Station announced that it had apprehended a 30-year-old man for driving under the influence. The man has been charged with drunk driving [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the enforcement of a landmark workplace safety law about a year ago, the number of worker deaths caused by serious industrial accidents at workplaces subject to the law increased last year, a government report showed Thursday. The Serious Accidents Punishment Act took effect on Jan. 27 last year [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to the lowest Thursday tally in 13 weeks, in a sign that the country is past the peak of the latest winter COVID-19 wave. The country reported 29,816 new COVID-19 infections, including 63 from overseas, bringing the total to 29,927,958, the Korea Disease [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jobs in the public sector rose 2.6 percent on-year in 2021, data showed Thursday, as the government created more positions for vulnerable people amid the protracted pandemic. A total of 2.83 million people were employed in 2021 by the public sector, up 73,000 from the previous year, according to [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A 27-year-old American man has been extradited to South Korea for allegedly breaking into subway train garages across the country and spray-painting graffiti on trains, police said Thursday. The American is under suspicion of breaking into nine subway train garages in Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon and six other regions together [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean senior citizens’ poverty rate has been on the mend but is still high among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Thursday. The relative poverty rate of South Koreans aged 65 and older stood at 37.6 percent in 2021, down 1.3 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 South Korean teachers feel anxiety about being reported for child abuse by their students, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey of 5,520 kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school teachers across the country conducted by the Korea Federation of Teachers’ Associations, 77 percent of [...]