SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans in their 20s and 30s have positive views about alternative meat, a survey showed Monday. Shinsegae Food Inc., a food business arm of South Korea’s Shinsegae Group conducted a survey of 1,000 people in their 20s and 30s, 67.6 percent of whom thought positively [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases jumped to a three-month high on Tuesday amid looming concerns of another virus wave as the government mulls lifting the indoor mask mandate. The country reported 86,852 new COVID-19 infections, including 55 from overseas, bringing the total to 27,841,001, the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 55 percent of South Koreans believe the COVID-19 pandemic will become a perpetual phenomenon, a survey showed Tuesday. Only 18.7 percent of South Koreans were confident that the COVID-19 pandemic will end at some point, according to the survey released by Statistics Korea. The survey was carried out [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Monday it will make subway trains not stop at a station if necessary, amid planned subway riding protests by a disabled advocacy group to demand better mobility rights. Demanding measures to improve their rights to free movement and budget for disability rights, the Solidarity [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported more than 25,000 new COVID-19 cases Monday, the largest for a Monday in more than three months, amid concerns of another surge as the government mulls easing the indoor mask mandate. The country reported 25,667 new COVID-19 infections, including 63 from overseas, bringing the total to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of the recently married couples in South Korea had no children in 2021, data showed Monday, amid the country’s chronic low birthrate and changing social norms. Some 45.8 percent of the country’s 871,428 couples who were legally married in the five years up to November 2021 did [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 10 office workers has been asked out consistently at work whether they like it or not, a survey showed Sunday. A pro-labor civic group Gabjil 119 conducted a nationwide online survey of 1,000 office workers, 11 percent of whom said they had been asked out by colleagues [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With study preferences slowly changing, study cafes are gaining popularity among students. The National Tax Service reported that the number of study rooms and schooling institutions, including study cafes, has been rising since 2017. Reading rooms, however, have been on a constant decrease, except for 2020. Unlike reading rooms [...]
GEOJU, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The 14th Geojedo International Penguin Swimming Festival took place on Saturday. Some 500 participants were seen at Deokpo Beach in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province wearing only their swimming suits and jumping into the frigid seas. Under clear skies, the temperature on the day of the festival hovered around 5 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Do Kwon, the wanted co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs accused of fraud following the massive collapse of the blockchain firm’s cryptocurrencies, is currently in Serbia, prosecutors said Monday. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Office obtained intelligence that Kwon has stayed in Serbia for about month after leaving the [...]