SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 5 South Korean adults do not wish to seek help from others, even when they are in dire need, a study showed Thursday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs surveyed 8,185 South Korean adults between the ages of 19 and 60, dividing them into four [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Most parcel delivery personnel are working under poor labor conditions, in which they have to work six days a week, a major umbrella labor group said Thursday. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions conducted a survey on the labor environment of 210 delivery service workers who are affiliated with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Apartments in taller buildings are more expensive in the greater Seoul area, a real estate big data company said Wednesday. Real Estate R114 made a price comparison of 3,403,812 apartments in the greater Seoul area sorted by floor, which showed that the average apartment price in buildings that are [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s affluent Gangnam District has the highest average salary per resident among all cities, counties and districts in the country, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Kim Hoi-jae of the main opposition Democratic Party analyzed the Annual National Tax Statistics report, which showed that each Gangnam resident made an average [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment of wage workers in South Korea achieved record high growth during the first quarter as the job market has recovered from the impact of the pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 19.75 million in the cited period, up 752,000 from a [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total fertility rate hit a record low last year as the number of childbirths continued to fall, data showed Wednesday, underscoring the country’s gloomy demographic situation. The country’s total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — came to 0.81 [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea hit a record low in the second quarter, while deaths rose to an all-time high in the cited period amid rapid aging and the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Wednesday. A total of 59,961 babies were born in the April-June period, down [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s population declined on-year for the second consecutive year last year, while the number of single-person households continued to increase, government data showed Tuesday. As of the end of 2021, the nation’s registered population stood at 51,638,809, down 0.37 percent from 51,829,023 tallied at the end of 2020, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nationwide consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 24 years in the second quarter of the year on soaring energy and food costs, data showed Monday. The national consumer price index came to 107.54 in the April-June period, up 5.4 percent from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Facebook, the U.S. social media network operated by Meta Platforms Inc., has seen an over 25 percent decline in the number of monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea across the past two years, an industry analysis report showed Friday. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit [...]