SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly two thirds of South Koreans do not trust the South Korean Protestant Church or its pastors, a recent study has revealed. The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 citizens, 63.9 percent of whom said they don’t trust the South Korean Protestant Church. Only 31.8 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s PC market grew 7 percent last year from the previous year on the back of the Windows 10 transition in the commercial market, industry data showed Tuesday. Domestic PC shipments totaled 4.55 million units in 2019, up 7.2 percent from 2018, according to the data by market [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of stray cats in Seoul has declined 54 percent over the past six years. The number of stray cats within city limits is estimated to have dropped 53.6 percent from 250,000 in 2013 to 116,000 last year, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday. The city suggested that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Monday their combined electric vehicle (EV) sales exceeded Volkswagen’s EV sales in global markets last year. Hyundai and Kia, which together form the world’s fifth-biggest carmaker by sales, sold a total of 126,406 electric vehicles in 2019, higher than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A vast majority of South Korean office workers are worried that their company could go belly up, a recent survey has revealed. According to a survey of 315 workers by job portal CareerNet Corp., 75.9 percent of the respondents said they were worried about their employer going bankrupt. When [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of subway users in South Korea’s capital and nearby metropolitan areas fell 15.3 percent, data showed Thursday, apparently reflecting concerns over the new coronavirus. A total of 37.7 million people used subway lines No. 1 to 8 between Jan. 28-Feb. 2, compared with 44.5 million in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported cars in South Korea fell 3.1 percent in January from a year earlier due to lower demand for Japanese brands amid trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo, an industry association said Wednesday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles fell to 17,640 units last month from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Some eight out of ten foreigners around the world positively evaluated the image of South Korea. According to an online survey of 8,000 people in 16 countries, including South Korea, by the Korean Culture and Information Service operating under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 76.7 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tourism industry is expected to take the hardest hit among local businesses here from the outbreak of a new coronavirus as more citizens cancel their overseas trips out of infection concerns, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the country’s largest travel agency HanaTour, a total of 187,000 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 85,000 terminally ill South Koreans have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment since the legalization of the right to die with dignity two years ago, government data showed Tuesday. The law took effect on Feb. 4, 2018, allowing terminal patients to sign up to forgo a “meaningless extension [...]