SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that pregnant women living in areas suffering from severe fine dust are 1.57 times more exposed to the dangers of giving birth to a premature infant. Premature infants are babies born before 37 completed weeks of gestation. A researchers said that they have found [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans getting married fell to the lowest level in more than 40 years in 2018, government data showed Wednesday, as young people delay marriage amid a prolonged economic slowdown. The number of couples tying the knot came to 257,622 in 2018, compared with 264,455 in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw reports of medication side effects gain about 2 percent in 2018, although their rate of growth slowed sharply from the prior year, data showed Wednesday. Local health authorities handled 257,438 cases of side effects from taking medicine last year, up 1.9 percent from the previous year, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 70 percent of customers have a positive view of the Seoul city government’s smartphone-based payment system, but a fewer number actually plan to use the service, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey by the Korea Foodservice Industry Research Institute involving 600 residents in Seoul, 67 percent [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Diesel cars, known to be one of the major causes of air pollution, comprised nearly half of all automobiles driven in South Korea last year. The Korea Transportation Safety Authority announced last Friday that cars in South Korea covered a total distance of 327.1 billion kilometers last year, an [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese account for 93 percent of all foreigners who acquired permanent residence in South Korea through investment, according to the IOM Migration Research and Training Center. The center revealed that in the 2010 to 2017 period, there were 1,901 cases of foreigners acquiring an Korean residence visas through investment. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees with fewer than 15 hours of work hours per week increased in number last year, while they shrank in size in the wholesale/retail and food/lodging industries. The results overturn prior expectations that the higher minimum wage has forced employers in the wholesale/retail and food/lodging industries to hire workers [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean consumers’ direct purchases of electronics and IT products through overseas online shopping malls came to a record-high level in 2018, data showed Sunday. According to the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation, South Korean consumers purchased 442.1 billion won (US$389 million) worth of home [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans treated for bipolar disorder soared more than 20 percent between 2013 and 2017, data showed Thursday. According to the data from the National Health Insurance Service, 86,706 people were treated for bipolar disorder in 2017, up 21 percent from 71,687 four years earlier. The [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Reports of defects in imported cars have reached 2,800 cases over the last five years, many of them involving engines or automatic transmission which, if they fail, may lead to serious accidents. Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty (CUCS) revealed the results of an analysis of the defect reports of [...]