SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – One in five married women with children experienced career interruptions this year, government data showed Thursday, marking the lowest level largely due to change in social perception and improved work–life balance policies. The number of married women aged 15 to 54 living with children under the age of 18 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A large majority of South Korean workers say the country’s labor market is fundamentally unequal, reflecting long-standing structural divides between large conglomerates and smaller firms, according to new research presented at a major labor conference in Seoul on Tuesday. The survey, released at the 30th-anniversary forum of the Federation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The amount of so-called club drugs seized in South Korea has increased more than sevenfold over the past five years, customs authorities said Tuesday. A total of 115.9 kilograms of illegal substances, such as marijuana and ketamine, that are commonly used in nightclubs and other entertainment venues were confiscated [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Applications for vouchers provided to pregnant women increased 8.1 percent from a year earlier in the first nine months of this year, data showed Sunday, in a possible sign of a continued rebound in the number of newborns in a country facing one of the world’s lowest birth rates. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Police have apprehended over 3,000 suspects in connection with online sex crimes over the past year, with nearly half of them in their teens, officials said Sunday. The National Police Agency (NPA) has detected 3,411 online sexual abuse cases between November 2024 and October this year, effectively detaining 3,557 [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s housing wealth gap continued to widen last year as expensive homes climbed further in value while lower-priced properties lost ground, according to new government data released Friday. The National Data Office said the price difference between the top 10 percent and bottom 10 percent of homes ballooned to [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer South Koreans say they plan to give anything back when they’re gone. Only about one in five now say they would leave part of their estate to society, the lowest share in more than a decade of record-keeping. The figure—22.2 percent, according to the National Data Agency’s latest Social [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has found that South Korean doctors work more than 2,300 hours a year on average, prompting calls from the medical community for more accurate assessments of working conditions before the government determines future medical school quotas. At a conference hosted Wednesday by the Korean Medical Association’s Research [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one in four South Korean households expect their financial situation to improve next year, even as a growing share of the population reports feeling lonely, according to a government survey released Tuesday. The biennial survey, conducted by the Ministry of Data and Statistics, found that 27 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign nationals rose for a third consecutive year in 2024, continuing a steady recovery from the pandemic-era slump, government data showed Thursday. According to the Ministry of Data and Statistics, a total of 21,450 international marriages were registered last year, up about [...]