SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s female population is forecast to surpass that of males in nine years, a government report showed Sunday. The total number of women reached 25.86 million last year, accounting for 49.9 percent of the country’s entire population of 51.82 million, according to the report compiled by the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea hit a record high in July on the back of strong demand for food delivery services and the purchase of foodstuffs amid the pandemic, data showed Friday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 16.2 trillion won (US$14 billion) in July, up 24.9 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Male workers in listed firms in South Korea earned 1.6 times higher wages than their female colleagues last year, a government survey showed Thursday. Men were paid an average 79.8 million won (US$68,800) in 2020, while their women counterparts received 51.1 million won, according to the study on 2,149 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top cosmetics maker AmorePacific Corp. has the highest ratio of female employees among major local firms, a corporate tracker said Thursday. AmorePacific had 8,117 female workers as of the end of December last year, which accounted for 74.8 percent of its total workforce at 10,800, according to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 5G user base continued to expand in July to reach over 17 million users, data showed Wednesday, with the growth expected to pick up later this year on the back of launches of new devices. The total number of 5G subscriptions stood at 17.08 million in July, [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of delivery workers in South Korea swelled nearly 12 percent in the second half of last year to hit a record high amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Wednesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy had 390,000 carriers as of the end of December last year, up 11.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people working at restaurants and hotels dropped 64,000 on-year in July as the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh down on the sectors, the government said Tuesday. The total number of workers in the restaurant and hotel industry stood at 1.09 million last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s combined area of rice paddies moved up 0.8 percent on-year in 2021, data showed Monday, with the country expected to maintain a stable supply of the staple grain despite heavy rains. The combined size of rice paddies is estimated at 732,000 hectares — slightly more than half [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports hit a fresh high in 2020 as more people enjoyed drinking at home and alone due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported US$330 million worth of wine last year, up 27.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost 70 percent of South Koreans support the government’s plan to grant long-term stay visas to hundreds of Afghan civilians who fled their homeland to be sheltered here from the Taliban, a poll showed Monday. According to the poll of 500 people aged 18 and above conducted by Realmeter [...]