SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are spending more time on mobile apps, with their average daily usage hours of such apps breaking the five hour mark in the third quarter of this year for the first time in history, an industry tracker said. The number of app downloads worldwide totaled 36 billion [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of automobiles fell more than 20 percent last month, ending eight months of on-year growth, amid the extended global supply shortage of automotive chips and fewer working days, data showed Friday. Outbound shipments of automobiles reached 151,689 units in September, down 20.7 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports nearly doubled in the first eight months of 2021 from a year earlier as more people enjoyed drinking at home and alone amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported US$370.5 million worth of wine in the January-August period, up 96.5 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cartoon exports jumped more than 40 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid the growing global popularity of Korean pop culture, a report said Wednesday. Outbound shipments of cartoons, including webtoons, stood at US$64.82 million last year, up 40.9 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported the largest job growth in more than seven years in September in the latest sign that the country’s job recovery has continued despite the fourth wave of the pandemic, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people reached 27.68 million last month, 671,000 more than a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of state employment insurance subscribers in the service sector topped 10 million last month for the first time since the insurance scheme was introduced 26 years ago, government data showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, more than 10 million service sector workers were [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi climbed nearly 14 percent in the first eight months of 2021 on growing overseas demand for healthier food amid the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. Outbound shipments of kimchi reached US$111.5 million in the January-August period, up 13.8 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s rice output is expected to increase 9.1 percent in 2021 from a year earlier due largely to favorable weather conditions and a rise in the cultivation area, data showed Friday. The country’s rice production is likely to come to 3.83 million tons this year, compared with a [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every 10 American adults believe the United States should get involved when and if there is an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, a survey showed Thursday. In an annual survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 63 percent of respondents said they would [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of seaweed products moved up 13 percent on-year over the first nine months of 2021, data showed Thursday, on the back of the growing popularity of Korean culture abroad. Outbound shipments of seaweed products, or “gim” in Korean, came to US$507 million in the January-September period, [...]