SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea was the world’s No. 2 heated tobacco market last year, and its growth will gather pace down the road, an industry tracker said Tuesday. The size of South Korea’s heat-not-burn electronic cigarette market reached US$1.67 billion last year, rising sharply from $453 million tallied in 2017, according [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long organ transplant waiting period has resulted in the deaths of 5.2 people per day in 2018, up twofold from eight years earlier, a state-run health agency said Tuesday. The development is causing a sharp increase in people waiting to get a transplant and a drop in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 8 out of 10 people who help take care of toddlers at home are their grandparents, mostly from their mother’s side. More than half of them are known to take care of the babies without any form of financial compensation. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people who visited the four main royal palaces and Jongmyo Shrine in Seoul surpassed the 5 million mark in the first half of the year for the first time in three years, the cultural authorities said Monday. The four palaces from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) are [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that 7 in 10 South Koreans are sick of various anniversaries such as Valentine’s Day and Pepero Day. According to a survey of 1,000 men and women aged between 13 to 59 nationwide by local research firm Embrain, 69.6 percent of respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual number of applicants for the state-run Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) surpassed 300,000 for the first time last year, its administrator said Thursday. A total of 329,224 people in 76 countries applied for the Korean language test for non-native speakers and ethnic Koreans in 2018, said [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of drivers caught driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) decreased by about 20 percent in the first week after a tougher anti-DUI law took effect on June 25, police said Wednesday. According to the National Police Agency (NPA), 270 DUI offenses were reported on a daily [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of 10 South Koreans positively evaluate the historic meeting among the leaders of South Korea, the United States and North Korea in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, according to a survey released on Wednesday. The survey, conducted by public pollster Realmeter with [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The ratio of South Korean women who are in favor of getting married fell sharply last year from a decade ago, government data showed Monday, a trend that is blamed for the country’s chronically low birthrate. The data compiled by Statistics Korea said that 43.5 percent of women said [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans aged 65 years or older could surpass 10 million in 2025 and jump to 18.79 million, or 38.4 percent of the country’s population, in 2047, a statistics agency said Thursday. Statistics Korea’s latest projection represented a dramatic hike from the 7.07 million people aged [...]