SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are not fully able to use their leisure time despite having more time on their hands thanks to the 52-hour workweek, a poll showed Friday. Macromill Embrain surveyed 1,000 people between the ages of 19 and 59, 70 percent of whom said they had more time off, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A third of South Koreans are traveling long distances to reach their hometowns for the Chuseok holiday this year, a survey revealed Friday. The findings, based on calls made to 9,000 households across the country by the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI), showed that a further six out of 10 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 60 percent of South Koreans who have sought reunions with family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean War have died, government data showed Friday. Among 133,353 South Koreans who have registered to be reunited with their long-lost loved ones in North Korea since 1988, 79,466, or 59.6 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean imports of Japanese beer nose-dived this month due to a boycott of products from the Asian neighbor here amid a bilateral trade dispute, data showed Thursday. The combined imports of Japanese beer over the first 10 days of this month fell a whopping 99.9 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Kangwon Land casino, located in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province, was found to be the most visited tourist destination for Kakao Corp.’s vehicle navigation users over the past year. According to a recent report released by Kakao, Kangwon Land was the number one destination for people going to restaurants and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 1,000 cases of workplace bullying were reported in the month after an anti-bullying law went into effect in mid-July, a civic group focusing on the issue said Wednesday. According to Workplace Gapjil 119, 1,073 cases were reported to it by bullied workers between July 16, when the act [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A government research indicated Wednesday a shorter workweek system introduced last year has reduced the daily work hours in Seoul’s central office district of Gwanghwamun by nearly 40 minutes. The labor ministry released the results of a big data analysis of workers’ hours in four major office districts in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite growing awareness of gender equality among Koreans, the equality gap between men and women during the traditional holidays remains wide, a recent report has shown. According to an online survey of 2,000 citizens conducted by the Seoul Foundation for Women and Family during this year’s Lunar New Year [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Chosun Ilbo, a major conservative newspaper, and TV Chosun, an affiliated cable network, rank near the top of the most distrustful media in Korea, a recent survey has shown. According to the 2019 Media Confidence survey of some 1,000 adult men and women conducted by weekly magazine SisaIN, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number and value of daily banking transactions via the internet climbed to new highs last year, with internet banking accounting for more than half of all bank transactions for the first time in history, central bank data showed Tuesday. The average number of daily transactions processed via the [...]