SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 30 percent of South Koreans living in urban areas want to return to the countryside, but the numbers are slowly in decline, a recent study has revealed. The Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) conducted a survey of 1,521 farmers and 1,500 city residents, in which 34.6 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Many office workers in South Korea prefer celebrating the new business year online, a study has revealed. South Korean job portal Incruit conducted a survey of 843 office workers, 77.9 percent of whom preferred holding a new business year celebration online. Only 22.1 percent wanted an offline celebration. Online [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Safety Speed 5030 policy, imposing speed limits of 50 km/h and 30 km/h on arterial highways and community roads, respectively, has resulted in more than 50 percent decrease in the number of deaths. The Road Traffic Authority, the National Police Agency, and SK Telecom, operator of the navigation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Veterinary clinics are less likely to announce the cost of treatment in advance, a recent report has revealed. According to a survey conducted by the Consumers Union of Korea (CUK) on 50 animal hospitals in the Seoul metropolitan area last month, the most expensive treatment item was related to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages in South Korea is on a decline as public perceptions towards the social pact is changing. Statistics Korea reported that there were 20,331 marriages in October, down by 7 percent from the previous year (1,525 fewer marriages). This marked the second lowest record since 1981. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam is the country with the largest number of international roaming users for mobile phones at the end of this year. KT Corp., one of South Korea’s leading telecommunications firm, said Vietnam was the country that had the largest number of users of its voice call roaming service “ON” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More Japanese tourists have visited South Korea than South Koreans have visited the Asian neighbor since August, data showed Sunday, after their countries have been engaged in an unprecedented trade row, sparking a boycott of Japanese goods and services here. The number of Japanese visiting South Korea reached 329,652 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — While single men and women picked civil servant or public corporation worker as the most favored occupation for their spouse, the preference for teachers has risen significantly when it comes to jobs for husbands. According to a survey conducted by DUO, a South Korean matchmaking firm, among 1,000 unmarried [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Ttareungi, Seoul’s shared bicycle service, showed the highest usage among all shared services and policies offered by the Seoul city government. Local authorities conducted a survey of 1,000 Seoulites, 59.6 percent of whom said they had used at least one or more shared services offered by the city. Among [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Small business owners in South Korea reported an average operating profit of 34 million won (US$29,264) last year, a survey showed Friday. According to the survey of 2,470 small business owners, conducted by Statistics Korea, they also posted average sales of 235 million won last year. The survey did [...]