SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are suffering from the “corona blues,” which refers to depression caused by the coronavirus outbreak that began in the country in January 2020. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a nationwide survey of 2,063 adults between the ages of 19 and 71, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With Starbucks preparing to raise drink prices, consumers are scrambling to ‘hoard’ Starbucks drink coupons. As of Tuesday, KakaoTalk mobile messenger gift shop’s bestseller list in the ‘coupons’ section showed that the top 15 items, except for third and 15th place, were Starbucks coupons. Since Starbucks coupons are valid [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added the most jobs in seven years in 2021 as the job market recovered to pre-pandemic levels due to the base effect and the economic recovery, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people reached 27.27 million last year, 369,000 more than a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A little over half of South Koreans support the abolishment of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family as proposed by the main opposition party’s presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the Realmeter survey that asked 1,011 adults on Monday and Tuesday, 51.9 percent said [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Among South Korea’s newly-wedded couples who have been married for fewer than five years, those with children gave birth to their first baby 16 months after marriage on average. The number of newly-wedded couples with babies amounted to 520,321 in 2020. It took 16.7 months on average for them [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases stayed below 4,000 for the fifth consecutive day Tuesday amid tightened antivirus restrictions, but concerns linger over a possible resurgence due to the continued spread of the omicron variant. The country added 3,097 new COVID-19 infections, including 2,813 local infections, raising the total caseload [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on, the effects of various non-medical virus mitigation measures such as mask-wearing or social distancing are slowly dimming. A research team from Chung-Ang University Hospital compared the epidemiological data and the timing of the introduction of various non-medical measures between COVID-19 and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese fishing boat has been seized for allegedly underreporting its fish catch in violation of Seoul’s fishing regulations, the oceans ministry said Tuesday. The ministry’s fisheries management service seized the 106-ton vessel in waters off the southwestern county of Shinan at around 6 p.m. on Monday, as its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The most-sought consultations by migrant women to address the difficulties they face in South Korea are legal consultations over how to respond to a variety of illegal behaviors, a civic support group for female immigrants said Monday. The Seoul Counseling Center for Migrant Women analyzed the type of consultations [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily coronavirus cases stayed below 4,000 for the fourth straight day Monday amid tightened distancing rules to curb the spread of COVID-19. The country added 3,007 new COVID-19 infections, including 2,768 local infections, raising the total caseload to 667,390, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention [...]