SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Gwangju emerged as South Korea’s highest-paying region under the country’s living wage system this year, offering a monthly wage of about 2.78 million won, according to a nationwide survey released Wednesday by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. The findings, based on a comprehensive review of living wage policies for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea recorded its fastest increase in births in nearly two decades last year, offering a rare note of demographic optimism in a country long defined by declining fertility. According to government data released Wednesday, 233,708 babies were born between January and November 2025, a rise of 6.2 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean workers have reduced their work hours by 17.8 percent with the help of generative AI platforms, a poll showed Wednesday, with more than half of them using such tools in their daily work. According to a poll of 3,000 wage workers aged 20 and older conducted by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of cybersecurity breaches reported to authorities rose 26 percent from a year earlier in 2025, a government report showed Tuesday, as hackers continue to develop their attack tactics based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The total number of cybersecurity breaches came to 2,383 in 2025, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s housing market grew sharply more polarized last year, as soaring apartment prices in Seoul collided with prolonged stagnation in regional cities, pushing the price gap between the nation’s most expensive and cheapest homes to its widest level in years. According to data released Monday by the Korea Real [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six in 10 men and women experiencing menopause in South Korea say their spouse is their most important source of emotional support, according to a new study highlighting shifting family dynamics in midlife. The findings were released Thursday by the LifePlus Femtech Research Institute of Hanwha General Insurance, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ rice consumption fell to a record low in 2025 as changing diets and eating habits continued to reduce demand, government data showed Thursday. Per capita rice consumption stood at 62.5 kilograms last year, down 3 percent, or 1.9 kg, from the previous year, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than eight in 10 people abroad now hold a favorable view of South Korea, a level of international goodwill not seen since the government began tracking the country’s global image seven years ago, according to a report released Tuesday. In a 2025 survey conducted by the Ministry of Culture, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — For many South Koreans, a dignified end of life means minimizing physical suffering and sparing loved ones from financial strain, according to a new nationwide study that sheds light on changing attitudes toward death in one of the world’s fastest-aging societies. The research, released Monday by the Korea Institute for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of long-term foreign residents in South Korea surpasses two million for the first time, public attitudes toward immigration remain cautious, with nearly half of Koreans saying the scale of the foreign population feels larger than expected, a new study shows. According to a report released Monday by [...]