![[Kobiz Stats] Annual Rate of Profit of Variable Insurance Funds in Korea](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/변액보험-수익률-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Annual Rate of Profit of Variable Insurance Funds in Korea")
[Related Article] Insurance Companies Are Losing Money in Variable Funds (Korea Bizwire, April 16) Variable life insurance funds, the bread-and-butter of life insurance companies, are recording a very low rate of return. Over the last year, their average yield was 0.81 percent with about 40.6 percent of the funds having recorded deficit. On April 15, [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Korean Job Seekers for Employment Tests](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/청년층-취업시험-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Korean Job Seekers for Employment Tests")
[Related Article] Samsung’s Dilemma in Continuing Paper-based Aptitude Test (Korea Bizwire, April 15) Samsung has long been one of the best companies to work for in Korea and this year was no different. Early in the morning on Sunday April 13, tens of thousands of young men and women woke up at dawn and went [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/사교육비-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student")
[Related Article] Overly Complicated College Entrance Screening Leads to Strange Job Titles (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Despite the government’s constant threat of crackdown on illegal tutoring on college-bound students, the so-called “college entrance exam consulting” is still thriving. Often it is evolving in quite unusual ways. Some of them visit the student’s house just before the [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/배달앱-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps")
[Related Article] War of Food Delivery Apps (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes.The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1인당연간근로시간-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita")
[Related Article] Big Change ahead for S. Korea’s Labor Standards (Korea Bizwire, April 10) The discussion in the National Assembly surrounding cutting back on work hours is gradually converging on the introduction of a 52-hour workweek scheme.The subcommittee for labor-management-government negotiation for social issues under the National Assembly’s Environmental and Labor Committee held on April 7 [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Volumes of Credit and Debit Cards Approved per Year](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/카드발급장수-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Volumes of Credit and Debit Cards Approved per Year")
[Related Article] Number of Credit Cards Issued Has Declined for the First Time (Korea Bizwire, April 9) Last year, the number of cards issued, both credit and debit, declined for the first time. According to the Bank of Korea’s “Payment and Settlement Report for 2013,” a total of 209.03 million cards were issued last year, [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Current Status of CNG Buses Running in Seoul](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/천연가스버스-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Current Status of CNG Buses Running in Seoul")
[Related Article] All City Buses in Seoul Will Go Green (Korea Bizwire, April 8) The Seoul city government has proudly announced that the replacement of 8,750 city buses in total from existing diesel buses to clean natural gas-fueled buses would be completed upon replacing 13 more this year. Since the project to replace diesel buses with [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Certification of E-mark by Year](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/환경마크인증-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Certification of E-mark by Year")
[Related Article] Disguising to Be Eco-friendly to Be Officially Forbidden (Korea Bizwire, April 8) To protect consumers from false or overstated displays and advertisements regarding eco-friendliness, the Ministry of Environment announced a new revision of the enforcement ordinance for the “Environmental Technology and Environmental Industry Act”. This revision is consisted of regulations regarding targets, acts, fines, [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Market Size of Mobile Coupons](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/모바일상품권시장규모-영문-2.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Market Size of Mobile Coupons")
[Related Article] Mobile Coupons Going Mainstream (Korea Bizwire, April 7) As more and more people use their smartphones to buy things on the Internet, the use of mobile coupons is also rapidly on the rise. A recent study found that consumers show distinctive patterns in using mobile coupons by different regions. (see the full text [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Tourist Hotels in Seoul by Classification](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/관광호텔등록현황-영문-2.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Tourist Hotels in Seoul by Classification")
[Related Article] Budget Hotels Are Scarce in the Midst of Luxury Hotel Glut in Seoul (Korea Bizwire, April 4) In an era in which 12 million foreign visitors come to Korea, either relaxing or lifting a regulation prohibiting construction of hotels near school zones has become a pressing matter; however, budget hotels that are most [...]