SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) –Last year, more than 20,000 high school students left school. This increase is linked to the challenges some students face when transitioning from online to in-person classes after COVID-19. It’s also influenced by the emphasis on timely admissions by major universities in Seoul. Data from the Ministry of Education, covering [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) –The number of prisoners taking psychotropic medications while in custody has steadily risen over the past four years, justice ministry data showed Sunday. A total of 5,741 inmates consumed such medications either through prescription or via mail last year, accounting for 10.8 percent of all inmates in correction facilities, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Police received nearly 20,000 reports of stalking crimes over the past two years since the enactment of the anti-stalking law, police data showed Sunday. As of August, police had received a total of 19,394 reports of stalking since the anti-stalking law went into effect in October 2021, according to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) –After 11 years of decreasing, the number of TB (tuberculosis) cases is now going up. This is happening because people are interacting more with each other as the COVID-19 pandemic gets better. For the past 11 years, the number of TB cases has been going down. It was decreasing by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The average monthly expenditure on books by households in their 20s and 30s has dropped below 10,000 won for the first time, marking a significant shift in spending habits. To put this into perspective, it’s interesting to note that the average cost of a lunch for an office worker this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Insider stock ownership at South Korea’s family-run conglomerates rose in 2023 from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday, as more founding members sought to tighten their grip on management. The insider stock ownership rate of 72 conglomerates that have group owners reached 61.2 percent this year, up 1.3 percentage [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The market for online e-coupon services, which provide gift certificates in the form of barcodes, is experiencing rapid growth. This surge can be attributed to the sustained popularity of non-face-to-face gifting practices that emerged during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The online shopping industry anticipates that the transaction value of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ happiness level is rising slowly but surely, unlike what the country’s ranking on happiness indices might suggest, according to a presidential committee promoting national cohesion. The Presidential Committee of National Cohesion said in a paper published last month that it reached the conclusion after comparing and analyzing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 8 out of 10 South Koreans in their 20s and 30s agree on the need for Seoul to improve relations with Japan, a survey showed Saturday. The online poll — conducted by the Korea Youth Foundation — found 22 percent of the respondents said they “strongly agree” with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The top 1 percent of South Korean singers in terms of income earned an average of 4.62 billion won (US$3.4 million) per person in 2021, with their aggregate income accounting for nearly 70 percent of that earned by all singers in the country that year, data showed Saturday. A [...]