SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of Korean women divers, known as “haenyeo,” from the east coast of South Korea are over 70 years of age, a survey showed Monday. The word haenyeo refers to women who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without breathing equipment. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of cigarettes in South Korea edged up 1.1 percent in 2022 from a year earlier, the finance ministry said Tuesday, despite the government’s anti-smoking campaign. South Korean smokers purchased 3.63 billion 20-cigarette packs in 2022, slightly up from 3.59 billion packs tallied a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Card use in South Korea exceeded 1,000 trillion won (US$811.4 billion) for the first time ever in 2022 as eased coronavirus curbs bolstered consumption, data showed Tuesday. According to the data provided by the Credit Finance Association, credit and debit card use amounted to 1,097.7 trillion won last year, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of coffee beans hit a new record in 2022, data showed Tuesday, in the latest sign of the drink’s growing popularity in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Imports of coffee beans, including both raw and roasted products, reached US$1.3 billion last year, soaring 42.4 percent from $920 million [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled a new vision for transforming mobility into a living space connected with buildings. The group on Monday released a “Mobile Living Space” animation video showing a scenario organically connecting mobility with buildings. The video, which is about four minutes long, showcased mobility solutions combined [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of 10 South Koreans see the need for Seoul to independently pursue its own nuclear weapons development program, a survey showed Monday, amid concerns over escalating military threats from Pyongyang and a lack of trust in denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. According to the Gallup Korea poll [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Birds indigenous to China are being found in South Korea, largely due to climate change, a study showed Sunday. A thesis published in the recent edition of the Korean Journal of Phycology reported that two silver-throated tits were discovered on Socheong Island in Incheon in March of last year. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s resorts and hotels are scrambling to attract so-called “petfam” guests with pets. Petfam (pet+family) refers a family that treats pets as a family. The Kensington Resort Chungju, which became a pet-friendly resort facility in December 2020, has been visited by 50,000 people ever since, who brought 65,000 [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A marathon with rather a rather unusual rule requiring participants to run shirtless in the cold winter weather has attracted significant attention. On Saturday, some 500 people participated in an annual “naked marathon race” in Daegwallyeong Pass in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province. When the runners set off at 11 a.m., [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s auto exports jumped 16.4 percent on-year in 2022 to a record high on the back of the popularity of local brands in the global market and growing demand for eco-friendly vehicles, the industry ministry said Monday. The value of exported vehicles came to US$54.1 billion last year, [...]