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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly over 1 in 5 part-timers in South Korea receive less hourly pay than the nation’s minimum wage, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey of 5,654 part-time workers taken by Albamon, a recruitment website for part-timers, 21.2 percent of the respondents said their hourly wage hovers below [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — On the occasion of the 4th annual ‘Headache Day’, the Korea Headache Society released the results of a survey of 500 parents of children and teenagers who experienced headaches on Wednesday. According to the survey, 57.2 percent of children who complained of headaches typically take painkillers ‘when a headache [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of South Koreans were willing to stop life-sustaining treatment on their deathbed. Professors Yun Young-ho and Park Hye-yoon from Seoul National University Hospital, in collaboration with a research team led by Dr. Kim Young-ae from the National Cancer Center, conducted a survey on 4,176 people (1,241 ordinary [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of private sector employees taking paternity leave surged by nearly 47 percent last year, government data showed Wednesday, amid a societywide campaign to promote a work-life balance. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, 17,662 male private sector employees took parental leave in 2018, up 46.7 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint research team formed by Professor Won Jang-won of the Kyung Hee University Hospital and Dr. Kim Hun-kyung, a researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology have announced the results of a study conducted on women aged 70 to 84 in Tokyo to see whether eight years [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 60 percent of South Korean households purchased ready-made food over the past year, with dumplings and pizza being the most popular, data showed Wednesday. According to the findings by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the two dishes were the most popular ready-made food products, followed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 500 people entered South Korea through direct flights in 2017 after contracting contagious diseases abroad, a report said Wednesday. A total of 529 direct-flight entrants were found to have contracted dengue fever, malaria and other infectious diseases in foreign countries that year, according to the report by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than eight out of 10 foreigners have a positive national image of South Korea, a survey released by the government showed Tuesday. According to an online survey of 8,000 people in 16 countries, including South Korea, 80.3 percent of foreign respondents evaluated South Korea’s national image positively. Notably, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Smokers often mistakenly think that reducing the number of cigarettes smoked in a day will lower their health risks. However, studies have shown that even those who smoke a little bit have a significant risk of hardened arteries. These findings were based on a study conducted by a research [...]