SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A program requiring drivers aged 65 or older to voluntarily return their licenses is in place in Seoul and some other local governments. However, in rural areas, where public transportation infrastructure is poor and the elderly population is a more significant demographic, there are voices of concern. According to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 vehicles sold in South Korea from January to May were sport utility vehicles, reflecting growing demand for recreational vehicles, industry sales data showed Monday. In the first five months, domestic and imported carmakers sold 612,043 vehicles, with SUVs accounting for 42 percent, according to data [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of employed men in their 40s shrank at the fastest pace in 27 years last month, attributable to the declining population and lackluster local manufacturing industry, government data showed Sunday. The number of employed males aged between 40 and 49 stood at 3.83 million in May, shedding [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Men accounted for merely 17 percent of all parental leave takers in South Korea last year, a level seen as very low among the world’s major countries, a report said Friday. The report released by the Korean Committee for UNICEF said the utilization of paternity leave by employed South [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ likability for Japan has increased amid the deteriorating relations between South Korea and Japan over the past few years. On the contrary, Japan’s favorability towards South Korea has declined, according to a recent survey. The East Asia Institute (EAI), a private South Korean think tank, and Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese and Japanese tourists, who make up the biggest share among foreign tourists visiting the country, have differences in their preferences and behavior, a government survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey by the Korea National Tourism Organization, which is affiliated with the culture ministry, 79.1 percent of Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Men in managerial and specialized jobs in South Korea and Japan have a higher mortality rate than in Europe, a study found. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands published the study in the online edition of the Journal of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined time spent on the photo and video-sharing platform Instagram by South Korean Android users surged by 73 percent on-year in May, industry data showed Tuesday. They spent a total of 26 billion minutes using Instagram last month, compared with 15 billion minutes during the same period a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The average number of home auctions throughout South Korea has surpassed 5,000 cases over the last two months. According to GG Auction, a South Korean court auction firm, the number of auctions of residences throughout the entire country reached 5,261 cases last month, surpassing 5,000 for the second month [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, male students have better grades in mathematics than females. Taking out the environmental factor, however, gender differences disappear, according to a recent study. Lim Seul-ki, a PhD candidate at Sogang University and Asst. Prof. Lee Soo-hyung argued in a recent paper that South [...]