SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Cybercrimes increased nearly 14 percent in South Korea last year to reach about 150,000 cases, the National Police Agency (NPA) said in a report Thursday, warning that phishing scams based on messengers and emails are expected to further evolve this year. A total of 149,604 cybercrimes occurred in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 35,000 terminally ill patients have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment since South Korea legalized the right to die with dignity, government data showed Wednesday. The law went into effect on Feb. 4 last year, allowing patients to sign up to forgo a “meaningless extension of life” by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one out of four single South Koreans don’t want to have babies, even after they marry, due to concerns over child-rearing costs, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey by matchmaking agency Duo Info Corp., 37.6 percent of unmarried respondents said they want to have a child [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are surveyed to have had more leisure time and spent more money on leisure activities on average in 2018 than previous years. On average, people had 3.3 hours of free time per weekday and 5.3 hours per weekend, the culture ministry said Tuesday, citing the outcome of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team led by Prof. Cho Chang-soo and Prof. Han Kyu-man from Korea University College of Medicine announced on Monday that it had classified 1,003 people out of 9,217 married couples who had no symptoms of depression at the time of the survey but showed signs of depression [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Per capita rice consumption in South Korea dropped to a record low in 2018, data showed Monday, although the rate of decrease slowed compared with recent years on the back of the popularity of ready-to-eat meals. According to the data by Statistics Korea, the average annual consumption of rice [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) reached an all-time high in 2018 amid a spike in purchases from the United States, industry data showed Monday. The country’s LNG imports totaled 44.04 million tons last year, up 17.3 percent from the prior year and a new record high, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s private consumption grew at the fastest rate in seven years in 2018, data showed Sunday. According to the Bank of Korea, South Korea’s private consumption grew 2.8 percent in 2018, marking the highest figure since the 2.9 percent posted in 2011. The country’s growth in terms of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean duty-free stores saw their sales from Japanese consumers rise sharply on-year in January despite the on-going military tension between the two countries, apparently on the back of the strong Japanese yen, industry sources said Sunday. Sales from Japanese consumers at a Lotte Duty Free shop in Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign tourists have varying tastes when it comes to sightseeing spots in Seoul, depending on their nationality, a research paper showed Friday. Visitors from Asia prefer Myeongdong, one of the capital’s main shopping districts, while European and American tourists are most impressed by royal palaces, according to the paper [...]