SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of South Koreans in their 20s feel strongly that they do not want to or will not get married. According to an online survey of a total of 1,000 unmarried men and women in their 20s by the Korea Population, Health and Welfare Association, 47.3 percent were opposed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — About 14 percent of women living in Seoul have suffered from digital sexual violence, including spycam filming, unsolicited intimate images and the distribution of videos of sexual acts, a survey showed Monday. The Seoul metropolitan government and its affiliated Seoul Foundation of Women & Family unveiled their recent survey [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Passengers using “maeul buses,” which are ubiquitous in neighborhoods across Seoul neighborhoods, said shameless cutting in line is what they hate the most about taking the bus. Maeul buses – “maeul” means “town” in English – are small green buses that run on routes connecting neighborhoods to nearby major [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of young South Koreans suffering from depression jumped nearly twofold in five years, data showed Friday. The data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) showed some 98,400 people in their 20s were diagnosed with depression last year, compared to some 50,000 tallied in 2014. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Korean office workers are financially burdened by a surge in spending on year-end get-togethers and New Year’s. Saramin, an online job search portal, conducted a survey of 1,795 office workers, 68.2 percent of whom said they feel uncomfortable by the amount of money they spend on Christmas, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans are supportive of government efforts to resume a long-suspended inter-Korean tour program at Mount Kumgang on North Korea’s east coast, a recent poll showed Wednesday, amid the North’s threat to end the cross-border project. According to the survey, conducted by the National Unification [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — It is no longer strange to see robots evaluating job seekers as artificial intelligence (AI) has been introduced in the recruitment process, and Robotic Process Automation has been deployed at offices across Korea. Against this backdrop, a considerable number of Korean adults believe that robots could replace them at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean banknotes have different lifetimes depending on their face value, with larger bills outliving the smallest bills by up to three times due mostly to the frequency of their use, a central bank report showed Tuesday. According to the report from the Bank of Korea (BOK), the country’s [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Most South Korean women who have stopped working said they quit their jobs due to marriage and having and taking care of children, data showed Tuesday. The data released by Statistics Korea said the number of married women who gave up their jobs came to 1.69 million as of April this [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the majority of South Korean adults support the idea of ‘Latte Papas’. Latte Papas refers to fathers holding coffee in one hand and pushing a baby carriage with another, a terminology that began in Sweden to describe fathers willing to take on more [...]