SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A baby born from undocumented Vietnamese parents has survived after timely medical intervention. The wife of a 25-year-old Vietnamese student of undocumented status gave birth to a son last September at Seoul National University Hospital through a cesarean section. The baby was struggling from respiratory disorders and jaundice and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 workers believe that workplace bullying is still serious, even though an anti-workplace harassment law has been in place for more than two years, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted on 1,000 office workers, 28.9 percent of respondents said they experienced workplace harassment [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans chose China as the biggest security threat to their country among the neighbors, excluding North Korea, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey by the state-run Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU) on 1,006 adults, 71.8 percent of the respondents picked China [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea sank to a record low in October, data showed Wednesday, highlighting the country’s bleak demographic situation with the chronically low birth rate. A total of 20,736 babies were born in the country in October, down 5.2 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Citizens in Seoul picked infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, as the most dangerous health hazard, followed by fine dust and climate change, a survey showed Wednesday. Infectious diseases topped the list of dangerous health and environmental factors with 4.21 points on a 5-point scale in an online survey of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 4,000 for the first time in 28 days Tuesday due partly to antivirus restrictions and fewer tests over the weekend, but the number of critical cases remained high. The country added 3,865 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total caseload to 615,532, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is being criticized for ordering the full transfer of patients struggling with severe symptoms from COVID-19 for longer than 20 days, a measure described by a number of healthcare workers as ineffective and inefficient. The Ministry of Health and Welfare ordered 210 long-term COVID-19 patients hospitalized in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The “MZ generation” is a Korean term refers to millennials and Generation Z but a recent smartphone usage analysis showed that the lifestyle of the two groups is distinctively different. Local pollster Open Survey conducted on an online survey of 600 millennials and 600 people from Generation Z, which [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — About 78 percent of salaried workers support the 52-hour workweek that was introduced in 2018 to reduce long working hours, a labor ministry survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,300 people, 71 percent said the reduction of the maximum weekly working hours to 52 from 68 was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The outbreak of the coronavirus deepened the polarization of the job market, with the number of office and sales jobs declining more compared to physical labor jobs, a central bank report showed Monday. The number of middle-skilled jobs such as office, sales, functional and assembly technicians declined by 0.63 [...]