SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Apartments in taller buildings are more expensive in the greater Seoul area, a real estate big data company said Wednesday. Real Estate R114 made a price comparison of 3,403,812 apartments in the greater Seoul area sorted by floor, which showed that the average apartment price in buildings that are [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s affluent Gangnam District has the highest average salary per resident among all cities, counties and districts in the country, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Kim Hoi-jae of the main opposition Democratic Party analyzed the Annual National Tax Statistics report, which showed that each Gangnam resident made an average [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Minting and Security Printing Corp., South Korea’s state-run minting agency, on Wednesday unveiled a specially designed medal commemorating Son Heung-min’s Premier League Golden Boot trophy. The front of the medal depicts Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean star celebrating the moment with his teammates after scoring his 23rd goal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Inflatable cheering sticks and plastic blankets will be banned from use at sports facilities, following the prohibition of cheering equipment made with synthetic resins. The Ministry of Environment posted the new guidelines on its official website, explaining the new enforcement rules of the resource recycling act taking effect on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment of wage workers in South Korea achieved record high growth during the first quarter as the job market has recovered from the impact of the pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 19.75 million in the cited period, up 752,000 from a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the Chuseok holiday set for Sept. 9-12, tech firms are offering a variety of discounts and promotions. Major telecom operator KT Corp. plans to offer special discounts through its AI and big data-based text commerce K-Deal. For customers who purchase more than 150,000 won (US$112) worth of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities are reopening foreign exchange programs suspended during COVID-19 pandemic. Konkuk University held an orientation program for foreign exchange students on Tuesday for the first time in three years. A total of 203 foreign students will be attending the university for the fall semester. More than 150 of them [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Food and beverages at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul will be offered in multi-use containers instead of disposable ones for the next 30 days. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it will begin a trial of multi-use containers at the stadium on Wednesday with the program running until the [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a record low last year as the number of childbirths continued to fall, data showed Wednesday, underscoring the country’s gloomy demographic situation. The country’s total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — came to 0.81 [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea hit a record low in the second quarter, while deaths rose to an all-time high in the cited period amid rapid aging and the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. A total of 59,961 babies were born in the April-June period, down [...]