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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Assets held by South Korean households in Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan areas were some 70 percent larger than those owned by households in the non-metropolitan regions, data showed Saturday. The average per-household assets in Seoul, the western city of Incheon and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province came to 692.46 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The value of damage to agricultural crops caused by wildlife such as boars and elk amounted to 54.2 billion won over the past five years. According to data received by Eoh Kiy-ku, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party, from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Agriculture [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Among South Korean adults, less than half are aware of the early symptoms of a heart attack (myocardial infarction). According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, a regional community health survey conducted last year of 230,000 Korean adults over 19 years of age across the country showed that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the places South Koreans travel to, Japan is the most popular destination when it comes to renting cars from TMAP. According to the “TMAP Trend Diary Car Rental Edition,” which analyzed TMAP car rental data from January to July this year, Fukuoka, Japan, was the top choice for TMAP [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that suicide-related counseling provided by youth counseling centers in South Korea has increased by 77 percent over the past five years. This increase comes amid a spate of teen suicides in Gangnam, Seoul. Last year alone, the number of suicide counseling sessions increased by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 60 percent of South Koreans agree with replacing BTS’ mandatory military service with other alternatives, a poll showed Sunday. Innertech Systems, a local polling agency, conducted a nationwide survey of 3,004 men and women above 18 years of age, of which 59.8 percent agreed that the K-pop [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Greenhouse gas emitted during the production of face masks may reach up to 1,000 tons per day, a government report said Monday. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission conducted a survey of 1,215 people, who said they used one new face mask every 2.3 days on average. Supposing there are [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total fertility rate, or the number of children each woman is expected to give birth to during her lifetime, was the lowest in the world for the last three years. The Korea Population and Health Welfare Association and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) jointly published a [...]