SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail industry is enjoying a surge in sales of Halloween-related items ahead of the Halloween weekend. Discount retailer Emart Inc. saw annual sales of Halloween items rise by more than 20 percent every year from October 2019 to October 2021. By generation, the consumer base has expanded [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean language test returned to Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar, after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. A record-breaking 3,064 people took the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) on Sunday at the University of Yangon Hlaing Campus. The test was canceled in 2020 because [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Marine sports such as surfing, scuba diving, yachting and others have gained popularity in recent years, data showed Monday. KB Kookmin Card Co., a credit card arm of KB Financial Group Inc., analized the four-year data of credit card sales related to marine sports, which showed a 140 percent [...]
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. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 8 out of 10 Seoul citizens are willing to install renewable energy power facilities such as solar panels at home as part of efforts to better cope with climate change, a survey showed Monday. Korea Beyond Coal, a network of environmental and civic groups, conducted a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of people in their 20s and 30s are enjoying tea as their hobby, finding inner peace during the process of brewing tea while discovering new types of satisfaction. On Instagram, there are more than 110,000 hashtags for “tea” in the Korean language and some 70,000 hashtags [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A BTS concert held in the southeastern port city of Busan on Saturday in support of the city’s bid for the 2030 World Expo has gained a lot of attention in the online sphere. An hour prior to the start of the concert, K-pop fan community platform Weverse was [...]
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 [...]