SEJONG, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Cancer topped the list as the No. 1 cause of death in South Korea, a government report showed Tuesday. In 2018, a total of 298,820 deaths were reported in South Korea, up 4.7 percent from a year earlier. It marked the highest level since 1983 when Statistics Korea began [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Three in ten people sent to emergency rooms after a failed suicide attempt were in their 20’s, while 36 percent of all those who attempted suicide said that it was not their first attempt. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey of 1,500 adults who had visited [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than nine out of 10 people who took their own lives showed warning signs before their deaths, but most people around did not take note of them. The Ministry of Health and Welfare released a report Sunday based on a meeting with 121 bereaved family members of the [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Patents involving safety belts with a function to carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation are increasing in number as research in the area is gaining speed. The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) reported that there were 104 patents related to safety belts over the last four years, which is more than [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The average annual salary of wage earners rose 4.6 percent in 2018 from a year earlier, a think-tank report showed Sunday, with the income gap between conglomerates and small businesses also narrowing over the period. South Korean wage workers earned 36.3 million won (US$30,543) annually on average last year, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Research suggests that air pollutants including fine dust increase the risk of sudden death infant death syndrome (SIDS) for young infants. An analysis of 454 children who died of SIDS in South Korea between 2009 and 2013 found a link in which exposure to air pollution raised the risk [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The average wage of foreign workers employed at industrial sites in Busan exceeded the average first-time employment wage of college graduates in South Korea. The monthly wage per foreign worker came to 2.46 million won (US$2,060), according to a survey of 150 local manufacturers that employed foreign workers by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Many Japanese people are concerned over the possibility that the deteriorating Korea-Japan relations may even hurt non-governmental exchanges between the two countries. The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, recently conducted a public survey that revealed that 56 percent of Japanese voters are concerned that Korea-Japan relations may affect economic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One in five workers in the IT sector has been bullied or witnessed bullying at work, according to a recent survey. Out of 1,364 IT workers surveyed, 265 or 19.4 percent said they had experienced or witnessed bullying at work, according to findings released Tuesday by the Federation of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean households is likely to peak at 22.65 million in 2040 before declining to 22.3 million in 2047, the country’s statistics agency said Wednesday, in the latest sign of a population decline in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. In 2017, the number of households in South Korea [...]