SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Employment for wage workers in South Korea grew at a slow clip in the third quarter of 2021 from three months earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 19.6 million as of end-September, up 2.6 percent, or 491,000, from a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility Corp.’s taxi-hailing service is selective in choosing passengers depending on their destinations, the Seoul metropolitan government said Wednesday. The city government carried out a fact-finding ‘mystery shopper’ test during the period from October to November last year after complaints poured in from citizens having difficulty calling taxis, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases soared to a new high of over 170,000 on Wednesday, with yet another infection record potentially looming amid the fast spread of the omicron variant. The country reported 171,452 new COVID-19 infections, including 171,271 local cases, raising the total caseload to 2,329,182, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In contrast to the common beliefs that a decline in face-to-face contact and increase in the use of media resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic would decrease the level of social cohesion, non-face-to-face contact via media can actually contribute to increasing social cohesion, a study showed Tuesday. A research [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In Seoul, most of those who filed for personal bankruptcy were older than 50 years and single-person households accounted for more than a half of them, the city-run welfare center said Tuesday. The number of personal bankruptcy applications filed with the Seoul Bankruptcy Court last year totaled 10,873, up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a record low last year as the number of childbirths continued to fall, data showed Wednesday, underlining the country’s bleak demographic situation. The country’s total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — came to 0.81 [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans support the acquisition of nuclear weapons either through indigenous development or the deployment of U.S. assets, a survey showed Tuesday. When asked to choose between the two options, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed favored South Korea developing its own weapons, according to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 infections surpassed 150,000 for the first time Tuesday amid the fast spread of the omicron variant across the country. According to health authorities and local governments, a total of 158,005 cases had been confirmed nationwide as of 9 p.m., up 60,070 from 97,935 posted the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The fast spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has led to daily infections of more than 100,000 people, but it has barely changed the everyday lives of office workers and college students. Many public institutions and private businesses have made few or no changes to their current work-at-home [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Food delivery app sales have spiked in proportion to the overall restaurant industry in the last two years with the spread of the contactless mode of consumption in the pandemic era, a report said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs reported that according to consumption data [...]