SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four South Koreans are inclined to spend more on 5G network services and faster internet connection to better prepare for the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed on Tuesday. The survey conducted by Ericsson-LG, a joint venture between Sweden-based Ericsson and South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc., showed that [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government’s response to the novel coronavirus is favorably appreciated by people around the world, a survey showed Tuesday. Commissioned by the Joongmin Foundation for Social Theory, a Seoul-based liberal institute, the survey was conducted by Rakuten Insight Surveys on 15,312 people living in 30 cities across [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone users’ connection to 5G network services is far lower than expected, with 5G users only able to use the fastest network 15 percent of the time, a report showed Tuesday. South Korea, the first country around the globe to commercially launch a 5G mobile network in [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of corporate employees in South Korea fell last month as the new coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh down on the job market, data showed Monday. The number of employees at domestic businesses employing one or more people reached 18.3 million as of the last working day of [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail sales in South Korea increased 2 percent in May from a year earlier as people purchased more sanitary items and foodstuffs through online platforms in the face of the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. The combined sales of 26 major offline and online retailers reached 11.63 trillion [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Reports of violence by dating partners rose last year from a year earlier, police said Sunday, vowing to step up efforts to prevent this type of crime and protect victims. The number of dating violence cases reported to police came to 19,940 in 2019, up from 18,671 a year [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean duty-free stores saw their sales rebound slightly in May after dipping below the 1 trillion-won (US$804 million) mark in April amid the new coronavirus pandemic, industry data showed Sunday. Combined sales of local duty-free shops rose 3 percent on-month to reach 1.02 trillion won, rebounding from 986.7 [...]
INCHEON, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people seeking psychological counseling more than doubled in the past few months here, according to city officials Saturday, as the COVID-19 pandemic was seen to have had widespread mental and emotional tolls on ordinary people. Applications for psychological counseling at the city’s public health and welfare [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 30,000 cases of child abuse were reported in South Korea last year, marking an increase of over 20 percent from the previous year, a lawmaker said Thursday, citing government data. Authorities received 41,388 reports of child abuse in 2019 and tentatively confirmed acts of maltreatment in 30,070 [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Exports of the Korean staple kimchi and the instant noodle ramyeon posted double-digit growth in the February-May period from a year earlier on increased online purchases amid the new coronavirus outbreak, data showed on Thursday. In the January-May period, exports of ramyeon and kimchi jumped 36 percent and 37 [...]