SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Drug smuggling caught by South Korea’s customs agency hit a record high last year as trafficking via non-contact delivery means shot up amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. The Korea Customs Service said it confiscated a total of 1,272 kilograms of drugs in 2021, up 757 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low in November last year, data showed Wednesday, underpinning the country’s gloomy demographic situation with the chronically low birth rate. A total of 19,800 babies were born in November, down 1.3 percent from the previous year, according [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases are expected to surpass 10,000 for the first time amid deepening concerns over the fast spreading omicron variant that has become the dominant strain in the country, data showed Tuesday. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, the country had reported 9,218 new COVID-19 cases, up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With increasing food delivery commissions resulting from skyrocketing demand in the pandemic era, consumers are beginning to split up delivery fees. In January, most delivery companies raised delivery commissions by 500 to 1,000 won (US$0.42-0.83). The default delivery fee, which stood at around 3,300 won last year, jumped to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases are expected to reach an all-time high amid deepening concerns over the fast spreading omicron variant that has become the dominant strain in the country, data showed Monday. As of 9 p.m. Monday, the country had reported 7,437 new COVID-19 cases, up 1,762 from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The perception that all aspects of Korean society are unfair is more widespread among older citizens, a recent survey revealed. Kim Seok-ho, a sociology professor at Seoul National University, released an analysis of the results of a survey in which 21.8 percent of respondents believed all aspects of Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 169 sinkholes formed in Seoul over the past seven years, the metropolitan government said Monday, amid a recent spate of cases of land subsidence on roads and other public places. The number of sinkholes, which refer to a depression or hole in the ground, surged from [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of discouraged workers in South Korea touched a fresh all-time high in 2021 due to a weak job market amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy had 628,000 discouraged workers, the largest tally since related data tracking began in 2014, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The unabated buying boom for luxury products has led to the emergence of new part-time jobs in which individuals are paid in return for waiting in line for entry to famous foreign luxury brand shops on behalf of customers. Customers who want to purchase luxury products can hire such [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases on Sunday spiked to the second-largest figure since the pandemic outbreak, putting health authorities on alert amid the fast spread of the omicron variant. The country added 7,630 new COVID-19 infections, including 7,343 local infections, raising the total caseload to 733,902, according to the [...]