SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With the rapid rise in fuel prices increasing the financial burden on households, low-wage service workers are being hit harder, a survey showed Thursday. The Korean Federation of Service Workers’ Union conducted a survey of 1,506 members with a monthly wage of less than 3 million won (US$2,300). On [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of universities are offering breakfast at an affordable price as consumer prices continue to rise. Kyung Hee University has been selling breakfasts for 1,000 won (US$0.76) to 100 people on a first-come, first-serve basis, since Monday. Seoul National University, Korea University, Sungkyunkwan University and Kangwon National University [...]
JEONJU, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeonbuk National University said Wednesday it will export Korean traditional houses known as “hanok” to France. The university and the K-Garden Association in France signed an agreement a day earlier. The association was established in June of last year in response to a request from the French senate to [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent report by the South Jeolla Green Federation has highlighted the severe gender imbalance among toads in the Seomjin River during the spawning period. The report states that out of 540 toads captured this year, only 50 were female, resulting in a male to female ratio of 10:1. [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Korea has introduced a service that helps people with visual or hearing disabilities to gain easy access to the museum. Through four kiosks set up at the museum, visitors can access voice commentary and use braille keypads to obtain a variety of information. Seniors or [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Impacted by high interest rates, high inflation and a stagnant job market, South Korea’s consumption has been on a downward trend since the autumn of 2022. According to data from Statistics Korea, the nation’s seasonally adjusted retail sales index stood at 103.9 in January, down 5.03 percentage points compared [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The outbreak of the COVID-19 led to a sharp increase in the number of unskilled laborers such as delivery workers and a decrease in the number of sales workers. The number of unskilled laborers such as food delivery workers and building cleaners was about 4.1 million last year, up [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of popular Korean TV series including Netflix’s “The Glory” and the tvN series “Crash Course in Romance” are garnering attention for their fashion design. Park Yeon-jin, one of the high-school bullies in “The Glory” who works as a weather reporter as an adult, made waves with a [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2023 Squid Olympics was held on Sunday at the Hong Kong’s Southorn Stadium in the neighborhood of Wan Chai. The event, inspired by the South Korea’s global sensation “Squid Game,” hosted a variety of Korean traditional games like “Red Light, Green Light,” “dalgona bbobggi” and “tug of war.” [...]
POHANG, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A fire fueled by underground natural gas, a rare resource in South Korea, has been burning for six straight years in the southeastern city of Pohang. In March 2017, a construction company drilled a tube well 200 meters underground to develop underground water in a Pohang park. During the [...]