SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one in three South Korean workers say they cannot freely use their paid annual leave, according to a new survey by a civic advocacy group, highlighting persistent gaps between labor law protections and workplace realities. The findings, released Sunday by Workplace Abuse 119 (Gabjil119), are based on a poll [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners staying in South Korea for 90 days or longer for work or study has exceeded 1.6 million as of November, with about half of them living in the greater Seoul area, data showed Saturday. The figure, which came in at 1.1 million in 2021 and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A deep cold settled over South Korea on Friday, pushing temperatures in Seoul down to minus 11 degrees Celsius as a post-Christmas cold wave tightened its grip on the country, the national weather agency said. By early morning, temperatures had fallen to minus 10.5 degrees in the western port [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant share of South Korean adolescents who have experienced school violence have also engaged in violence against their parents, according to a new academic study, underscoring concerns that trauma suffered at school can spill over into the home and pointing to the need for family-based interventions. The findings, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea recorded a 16th consecutive month of year-on-year growth in births in October, but the pace of increase slowed to its weakest level this year, underscoring how fragile the country’s demographic rebound remains. A total of 21,958 babies were born in October, a 2.5 percent increase from a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven in 10 foreign nationals running small businesses in South Korea are Chinese, highlighting the growing role of Chinese entrepreneurs in the country’s local service economy, according to a new report released Tuesday. An analysis by the Korea Immigration Policy Institute found that Chinese nationals accounted for 72.5 [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ulsan’s Ulju County will ring in the new year with a large-scale sunrise celebration at Ganjeolgot Cape, hosting a two-day festival from Dec. 31 through Jan. 1 to mark what is widely known as the first sunrise on the Korean Peninsula. County officials said preparations were finalized this week for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jogye Temple, the main temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, lit its annual Christmas tree on Thursday evening in a ceremony emphasizing interfaith harmony amid global and domestic tensions. The event, held at the temple’s main gate in central Seoul, brought together leaders from Korea’s major religious communities, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A major exhibition of the late Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee’s art collection has drawn strong early interest in Washington, surpassing 15,000 visitors within its first month, underscoring growing global attention to Korean cultural heritage. The National Museum of Korea said on Thursday that attendance at “Korean Treasures: Collecting, Cherishing, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign workers in South Korea surpassed 1.1 million in 2025 to reach a record high, with the proportion of employed international students also sharply up, a survey showed Thursday. As of May, there were 1.69 million foreigners aged 15 or older residing in Korea, up 8.4 [...]