SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases stayed above 50,000 for the third consecutive day Saturday amid concerns of a possible resurgence in the winter. The country reported 54,328 new COVID-19 infections, including 58 from overseas, bringing the total to 26,145,764, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases continued to show a marked on-week growth Friday as the country is bracing for another virus wave in the winter, health authorities said. The country reported 54,519 new COVID-19 infections, including 49 from overseas, bringing the total to 26,091,539, the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Koreans, who typically prioritize work-life balance and have gotten used to online life, are avoiding the advertisement, PR and marketing industry. Online jobs portal Incruit showed that the job competition in the advertisement industry stood at 2.8 to 1 in 2018, after 24,128 applicants flocked to 8,761 job [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Many survivors of past mining accidents were unable to return to their former jobs as miners. Yang Chang-seon, a former miner who rescued from a collapsed mine in Cheongyang County, South Chungcheong Province in 1967, chose to leave the mines after the accident. He was rescued after 368 hours, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Men consider physical looks to be more important when looking for someone to get married to compared to women. Matchmaking firms Bien-Aller and Only You conducted a nationwide survey of 518 single men and women, in which 38.2 percent of men said physical looks come as first priority when [...]
TONGYEONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Coast Guard has recently gained media attention for visiting “haenyeo” to learn about their practices and traditional know-how. Haenyeo (Sea Women) in Korean refers to female divers who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without breathing equipment. The Tongyeong Coast Guard hosted a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to below 60,000 but showed a marked on-week growth Thursday as the country is at the onset of another virus wave, health authorities said. The country reported 55,365 new COVID-19 infections, including 50 from overseas, bringing the total to 26,037,020, the Korea Disease [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — While more South Koreans now perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compared to the past, they still lag behind the U.S., Britain, Japan and other major countries, a lawmaker said Tuesday. Rep. Nam In-soon of the Democratic Party referred to a Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDA) report that South Korea’s CPR [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will secure oral COVID-19 treatment pills ahead of schedule and beef up monitoring of vulnerable groups, as it is bracing for another wave of COVID-19 that could peak in December, health authorities said. The new wave is forecast to bring the number of daily infections to as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added jobs for the 20th straight month in October, data showed Wednesday, but the growth continued to slow for the fifth month in a row as the country braces for a possible recession amid high inflation and slowed growth. The number of employed people stood at 28.41 [...]