SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that male cancer patients tend to rely more on their spouses than women. A research team co-led by Prof. Shin Dong-uk from Samsung Medical Center conducted a survey of 439 cancer patients who received treatment at 11 medical centers in South Korea. The average age [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than four out of ten unmarried men and women think they need to own their own house, but they see it as impossible in reality. Such results were published in a report titled “A Study on the Relationship Between the Living Characteristics of Young Adults and Marriage” by [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — One in two single men and women never get back together with their ex because they know that they will break up again for the same reason. According to a survey conducted by matchmaking agency Duo Info Corp. on Tuesday, when asked whether one reunited with one’s ex, of [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hotels next to shopping complexes are enjoying a huge rise in popularity as more and more people remain reluctant to go outdoors amid high levels of air pollution. Trip.com, an online travel agency, reported on Tuesday that its reservation rate at six hotels next to shopping malls in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean adults positively evaluate the Moon Jae-in government’s policy of making peace with North Korea, a poll showed Wednesday. Realmeter’s survey of 505 people older than 19 nationwide found that 52.2 percent gave a positive assessment of Moon’s peace policy for the Korean Peninsula. [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul still has a wide jobholder gender gap and more than half of its working citizens earn less than 3 million won (US$2,570) a month, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s annual survey, 76.2 percent of male citizens and 45.7 percent of female citizens had [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw a significant rise in used car exports in the first quarter of this year, with Libya becoming the largest importer of South Korean used cars. South Korea exported 107,321 used cars in the first quarter, which was a 42.9 percent jump from the same period last [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans prefer to travel with their families, a recent study has showed. Hana Tour Co., a South Korean travel agency, conducted a survey of 1,200 citizens, most of whom said they would like to travel with their family. The composition of family members, however, has been changing recently [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 80 percent of active sniffer dogs deployed by South Korea’s quarantine agency are cloned, data showed Monday, as activists express their concerns over potential animal abuse. According to the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, 42 of its 51 sniffer dogs were cloned from parent animals as of April, [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of marriage immigrants and naturalized South Koreans who have lived in South Korea for more than a decade has increased significantly from ten years ago. Although these people have been living in South Korea for a long time, their social networks have been found to be lacking, [...]