SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of undocumented immigrants in South Korea has exceeded the 400,000 mark, data showed Tuesday. The Korea Immigration Service reported there were 2,172,000 foreigners residing in South Korea as of late September, up by 2.3 percent from August. Among them, 402,755 foreigners were undocumented and had failed to [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of babies born in South Korea touched an all-time low in August with deaths soaring to a record high amid rapid aging and the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. A total of 21,758 babies were born in August, down 2.4 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea fell below 38 percent of all salaried workers in August, data showed Tuesday, as the country gradually returns to pre-pandemic normalcy. Non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, took up 37.5 percent of the country’s 21.72 million salaried workers, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The numbers of beef cattle and chickens raised in South Korea rose in the third quarter from a year earlier, data showed Thursday, amid the recovering demand following eased social distancing rules. The number of beef cattle came to 3.7 million over the July-September period, up 2.4 percent on-year, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of tax collected from stock transactions halved on-year in August, data showed Thursday, as the bearish market weighed down retail investors’ appetite for local shares. The combined amount of stock transaction tax collected in August came to 528.5 billion won (US$368 million), down from 1.01 trillion won [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of employees in the delivery industry increased on-year in the first half of 2022, data showed Tuesday, amid growing demand for such services due to the prolonged pandemic. The couriers and messengers industry hired 311,000 people in the January-June period, up 52,000 from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An average of more than 200 cases of crimes committed by those high on drugs have been reported annually over the past four years, a lawmaker said Monday. The number of such crimes totaled 221 in 2018, 236 in 2019, 182 in 2020 and 230 last year, showing a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of firearm confiscations by customs authorities skyrocketed more than 170 times this year from five years ago due to an illegal influx of powder-actuated nail guns, a customs report showed Monday. According to the Korea Customs Service report submitted to Rep. Bae June-young of the People Power [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A local research institute claimed Monday that the social and economic cost of malicious online comments reaches about 35 trillion won (US$24.3 billion) a year. According to the Barun ICT Research Center affiliated with Yonsei University, up to 35.3 trillion won is spent a year due to problems arising [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s car exports jumped 34.7 percent on-year in September on brisk demand for eco-friendly cars, data showed Friday. The value of outbound shipments of automobiles came to US$4.79 billion last month, the largest ever for any September, according to the data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and [...]