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[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student

[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student

[Related Article]  Overly Complicated College Entrance Screening Leads to Strange Job Titles (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Despite the government’s constant threat of crackdown on illegal tutoring on college-bound students, the so-called “college entrance exam consulting” is still thriving. Often it is evolving in quite unusual ways. Some of them visit the student’s house just before the [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps

[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps

[Related Article]  War of Food Delivery Apps (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes.The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita

[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita

  [Related Article]  Big Change ahead for S. Korea’s Labor Standards (Korea Bizwire, April 10) The discussion in the National Assembly surrounding cutting back on work hours is gradually converging on the introduction of a 52-hour workweek scheme.The subcommittee for labor-management-government negotiation for social issues under the National Assembly’s Environmental and Labor Committee held on April 7 [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Certification of E-mark by Year

[Kobiz Stats] Certification of E-mark by Year

[Related Article] Disguising to Be Eco-friendly to Be Officially Forbidden (Korea Bizwire, April 8) To protect consumers from false or overstated displays and advertisements regarding eco-friendliness, the Ministry of Environment announced a new revision of the enforcement ordinance for the “Environmental Technology and Environmental Industry Act”. This revision is consisted of regulations regarding targets, acts, fines, [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Number of Start-up Businesses by College Students in 2013

[Kobiz Stats] Number of Start-up Businesses by College Students in 2013

[Related Article] No Adventure for Korean University Students (Korea Bizwire, April 3) While the government is trying to boost the domestic economy by reigniting a “second dot-com boom” encouraging young entrepreneurs to set up more tech ventures, fewer and fewer university students are daring to set up their own businesses. According to a report published [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Per Capita Credit Card Transactions among Industrialized Nations

[Kobiz Stats] Per Capita Credit Card Transactions among Industrialized Nations

[Related Article] Paper Receipts Turning to Waste Are Worth 270 Billion Won (Korea Bizwire, April 3) The receipts printed upon making transactions are doing more harm than personal data spill: waste of resources, and the fear of endocrine disruptor commonly known as environmental hormone. However, the credit card companies and the government authorities are not [...]