SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 44 percent support the idea, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 500 adults, conducted by pollster Realmeter on Tuesday, 53.7 percent said [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Those in low-income groups are bearing a relatively higher inflation burden than those with higher incomes in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, a local research institute said. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) analyzed the change in prices felt by consumers for the periods of 2018-2019 and 2020-2021. [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Although South Korean university students are experiencing various difficulties due to employment struggles and expensive college tuition, their stress level is different by gender and their parents’ income and academic level, a study showed Monday. A research team from Korea University carried out a latent profile analysis based on [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1.5 out of 10 sexual violence cases that a civic group consulted on last year were committed by close relatives, data showed Monday. In the 537 sexual violence consultation cases conducted in 2021 by the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, the share of those committed by relatives stood [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s accumulated COVID-19 caseload exceeded 10 million Tuesday amid concerns that infections could spike again with the spread of the omicron variant. The total caseload breached the grim milestone of the 10 million mark in the afternoon, as the country had reported 475,276 new cases as of 9 [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean Marine draftee who departed for Poland without approval while on vacation is in the custody of Ukraine authorities, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday, amid a report he intends to help Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. The Marine attempted to enter Ukraine from Poland but was [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost 75 percent of people in the top 1 percent of the earned income tier work at companies located in greater Seoul area, indicating severe inequality between regions in terms of job quality, data showed Monday. Rep. Kim Hoi-jae of the Democratic Party received reports from the National Tax [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1 in 10 South Korean young adults feel that they are isolated from society, a study showed Monday. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 2,041 young adults between the ages of 18 and 34, 13.4 percent of whom felt “isolated from other people.” Among [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 58 percent of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 33 percent support the idea, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the poll of 1,018 adults, conducted by pollster Mediatomato on Saturday and Sunday, 58.1 [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases dropped to the 200,000s for the first time in 10 days Monday due to less testing over the weekend, but concerns remain high that infections could spike again, as the government eased social distancing rules this week. The country reported 209,169 new COVID-19 infections, [...]