SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An independent research conducted on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) showed Wednesday that the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics were a success. The IOC released on its website the findings by Publicis Sport & Entertainment, whose study in March 2018 surveyed 36,000 people, aged from 13 to 65, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of all doctors in South Korea were found to be suffering from traumatic disorders due to the excessive amount of stress they typically receive from overwork and a lack of sleep during their residency years. InterMD, an information sharing platform for doctors, conducted an online survey of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 63 percent of South Koreans have used banking and payment services via smartphones as a growing number are getting familiar with the tech device in their everyday lives, a central bank poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 2,597 adults, conducted by the Bank of Korea (BOK) last [...]
GOSEONG/YANGGU, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Internet cafes, called “PC bangs” in Korean, are the favorite place for rank-and-file soldiers to spend time outside their barracks after work on weekdays, according to a survey released today. On Feb. 1, the defense ministry allowed ordinary soldiers to go off base after work for four hours on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of unemployed moms in South Korea want to find work to better cover living and education-related expenses for family members, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 56.6 percent of the respondents said they want [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean job seekers picked Google Korea as the most sought-after multinational company to work for, followed by Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. According to Saramin, a South Korean online job search platform, 27 percent of 1,194 job seekers chose Google Korea as their most preferred employer. Starbucks Coffee Korea [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Only one in five single South Korean women said they want to get married, data showed Friday, underscoring the tough social challenges facing Asia’s fourth-largest economy amid a record low fertility rate. The data compiled by Statistics Korea showed that 22.4 percent of single women are looking to tie [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly six in 10 married women in South Korea think they should provide financial support for their offspring until graduation from college, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey of 11,205 married women, 59.2 percent of the respondents said they think it appropriate to financially support their children [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans consider positively the possibility of improvement in North Korea’s human rights situation, a recent survey showed Thursday. The survey conducted on 1,000 adults late last year showed that 65 percent of the respondents were positive about a possible improvement, according to the Database Center [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on Wednesday that there have been 270,000 medical insurance subscriptions over the past 10 months for a new insurance policy that was launched last year. The insurance policy, which was released in April of last year, is a product with a lowered threshold [...]