SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A government poll showed Monday that the global popularity of South Korea as a tourist destination increased for the sixth consecutive year in 2019, thanks to the promotional effects of the country’s globally loved cultural content sector. According to the 2019 poll on the effect of tourism marketing, released [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The amount of state allowances paid to those unemployed or seeking jobs soared to a record high of nearly 900 billion won (US$738 million) in March, data showed Monday, due largely to the negative economic impact from the coronavirus outbreak. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw its trading volume of electricity generated from biomass soar nearly 51 percent in 2019 from a year earlier, data showed Monday. The amount came to 4,199 gigawatt-hours (GWh) last year, up 50.7 percent from the previous year, according to the data by state-run utility firm Korea [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Telecommuting has been rapidly spreading among South Korea’s small and midsized companies, as well as among their larger counterparts, as part of their efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said Friday. The ministry said a total of 2,602 small businesses had applied for [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Online credit card spending in South Korea soared more than 22 percent in March, as consumers avoided going out due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, data showed Friday. Online credit card purchases approved by the country’s eight card firms — Shinhan, Samsung, KB Kookmin, Hyundai, BC, Lotte, [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans believe that it’s necessary to use electronic wristbands to keep track of those under self-quarantine as the country aggressively moves to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, opinion polls showed Thursday. In a survey of 1,000 adults nationwide, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Sports [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism industry took a big hit from the novel coronavirus in February due to a reduction in both inbound and outbound tourism, industry data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy registered a tourism deficit of US$365.2 million in February, down from $927.6 million the previous month, according to [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Koreans support the social distancing campaign to fend off the coronavirus, though three in 10 feel its side effects, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey by the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health, a nongovernmental organization, also found citizens in an overwhelming number are positive toward [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 6 in 10 South Koreans are in favor of emergency relief funds over the coronavirus outbreak being paid to the entire nation, instead of just the bottom 70 percent income group as proposed by the government, a poll showed Wednesday. According to a survey of 500 adults nationwide, [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans spent an average of two hours per day searching for coronavirus information in March amid a surge in the number of cases, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey, taken by a research team from Yonsei University in Seoul, also showed that those who were in self-quarantine put [...]