SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — While South Koreans are now less exposed to the risk of depression and anxiety following the end of social distancing measures, those who are considering suicide has gone up proportionally since the pre-COVID era. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a nationwide survey of 2,063 adults in June, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers regard one’s ability as the most important criterion for distributing rewards, a study indicated Thursday. The report published by the Korea Educational Development Institute surveyed about 500 students from a total of three middle and high schools about their perception of fair distribution. They were presented with various [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of new daily COVID-19 cases in South Korea reached a four-month high Wednesday, as the nation grapples with the fast spread of a highly contagious omicron subvariant. The country added 151,792 new COVID-19 infections, the highest since April 13, when it reported 195,387 cases, bringing the total [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc.’s Siri is being criticized for describing Korea as “the Korean peninsula in modern history, or Joseon under the Japanese empire.” The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a South Korean civic organization, revealed that asking the virtual assistant about Korea returns the aforementioned response. “Korea is a region [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A criminal organization that tricked customers by claiming that it could win first prize in a weekly national lottery draw with artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been handed over to the police on fraud allegations. The Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency said Tuesday that 52 people have been apprehended [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the 17th straight month in July, but the pace of job growth slowed from the previous month amid heightened economic uncertainty, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.48 million last month, up 826,000 from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of employees hired by South Korean startups rose by about 10 percent in one year, data showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, the number of employees hired by the nation’s 34,362 startups totaled 761,082 as of the end of June, up 67,605 from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases jumped to a nearly four-month high Tuesday amid a resurgence of infections driven by a highly infectious omicron subvariant. The country added 149,897 new COVID-19 infections, the highest since April 13 when the tally hit 195,387, bringing the total caseload to 20,694,239, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A disaster movie-like scene unfolded in southern Seoul on Tuesday morning, as a large number of cars abandoned the previous night by flood-stricken motorists were left unattended on streets. The heaviest rainfall in 80 years battered the Seoul metropolitan area this week, causing flash flooding and submerging many roads [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The heavy downpours that have pummeled Seoul and central regions of South Korea also hit the retail industry, causing closures of department stores and delayed deliveries of goods to consumers. Parts of Seoul and the surrounding Incheon and Gyeonggi Province received heavy rains of over 100 millimeters per hour [...]