SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign population in South Korea has fallen below the 2 million mark for the first time in over five years amid the new coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Tuesday. As of March, the total number of foreign residents here stood at around 1.99 million, down 9.2 percent from [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumption expenditures in South Korea’s tourism and leisure sector decreased by more than 20 percent last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, a state-funded think tank said Monday. In particular, foreigners’ spending in the domestic tourism and leisure sector plunged by nearly 80 percent and the travel industry was [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of imported commercial vehicles in South Korea rose 18 percent in March from a year earlier on recovering demand amid the extended coronavirus pandemic, an industry association said Monday. The number of newly registered imported commercial vehicles climbed to 413 units last month from 349 a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Newlywed couples who have owned a home since getting married had a greater chance of having children than newly married couples without homes, data showed Sunday, indicating that owning houses may affect childbirths. Of 212,000 first-time and newly married couples who tied the knot in 2014 and maintained their [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of cosmetics shot up 15 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, data showed Sunday, on the back of growing demand from the United States and Asian countries. Outbound shipments of cosmetics reached US$6.12 billion last year, according to the data compiled by the Korea Customs [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Cases of cyberbullying involving elementary to high school students increased sharply last year as the new coronavirus pandemic turned many classes online, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey released by the Blue Tree Foundation, cyberbullying accounted for 16.3 percent of all school bullying cases experienced by respondents [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 4,500 stalking cases were reported to police across the country last year, but offenders were punished by law in only 1 in 10 cases, police data showed Saturday. According to the National Police Agency’s data released by an opposition lawmaker, police received reports of 4,515 stalking cases [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of 10 South Korean young people think it is unnecessary to get married and have kids, a government survey showed Saturday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted the triennial poll on 7,100 people aged between 9 and 24 and 4,800 parental caregivers from November through [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign ownership of South Korean land expanded nearly 2 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, the land ministry said Friday. Foreigners owned 253.3 square kilometers of land here as of the end of December last year, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of layer chickens raised in South Korea fell to the lowest in more than three years in the first quarter, affected by the outbreak of bird flu across the nation, data showed Thursday. The number of layer chickens reached 62.1 million as of end-March, down 14.7 percent [...]