SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners staying in South Korea bounced back above the 2 million mark last month for the first time in 15 months, immigration data showed Thursday. According to the data by the justice ministry’s immigration policy bureau, 2,012,862 foreigners were staying in the country as of May, [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Disputes over noise between apartments have increased in number following increased indoor activity in the pandemic era, a civic group said Wednesday. The Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) studied reports published by the Ministry of Environment and reported that the number of noise complaints doubled from 26,257 cases [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households that moved from urban areas to farming villages reached an all-time high last year amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and soaring housing prices, data showed Thursday. The number of such households came to 377,744 in 2021, up 5.6 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases came below the 10,000 mark for the 13th consecutive day Wednesday as omicron slows, while authorities confirmed the first monkeypox infection in the country amid concerns over an inflow of the rare disease. The country added 8,992 new COVID-19 infections, including 106 cases from [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of neighbors who live near President Yoon Suk-yeol’s private home filed a petition Wednesday asking police to stop noisy protest rallies in their neighborhood. Employing loudspeakers, progressive protestors from YouTube news channel Voice of Seoul have been staging daily rallies in front of Yoon’s apartment building in southern [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low in April amid the chronically low birthrate, while that of deaths hit an all-time high due to rapid aging and the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. A total of 21,124 babies were born in April, down [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the income earned by seniors in South Korea turned out to be labor wages, indicating that a lot of seniors still work after retirement to sustain their livelihood, a report said Tuesday. The report titled “Pensions at a glance 2021″ published by the Organization for [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The growing popularity of eating out or ordering in among single-person households has undermined the ability of many to maintain a balanced diet, hurting overall national health, the health ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare reported that the percentage of those who consume more than 500 [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The millennial generation’s social media usage rate turned out to be higher than those of older and younger generations in South Korea, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute analyzed the Korea Media panel survey that was conducted with the participation of 4,171 households and 10,154 [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 10,000 for the 12th day Tuesday, marking a steady decline in the virus curve amid the slowdown in the omicron spread. The country added 9,310 new COVID-19 infections, including 76 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,289,373, the Korea Disease Control [...]