SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea dropped to a new record low in May, data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign that underscores the country’s gloomy demographic situation. A total of 22,052 babies were born in May, down 3.5 percent from the previous year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Large companies in South Korea have more than halved their air pollutant emissions over the past five years amid the government’s anti-coal policies, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Air pollutant emissions by 166 plants of 77 large businesses came to 139,112 tons in 2020, down 56 percent from 316,013 [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 7 in 10 South Korean senior citizens want to keep working until the age of 73 amid a rise in life expectancy, a survey showed Tuesday. The survey by Statistics Korea showed 10 million, or 68.1 percent, of the 14.76 million South Koreans aged between 55 and 79, [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Retails sales in South Korea rose 12 percent in the first half of 2021 from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday, as consumers were fatigued by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and became less reluctant to visit supermarkets and department stores. The combined sales of 25 major offline and online [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 66 percent of South Koreans support the idea of granting parole to Lee Jae-yong, the jailed de facto leader of Samsung Group, a poll showed Monday. In a poll of 500 people aged 18 and older nationwide conducted by Realmeter on Friday, 66.6 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of biopharmaceutical products more than doubled in 2020 from a year earlier on the back of the growing demand for pharmaceutical products amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a report showed Monday. Outbound shipments of high-end biopharmaceutical products came to US$5.1 billion in 2020, compared with around $2.1 [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s instant noodle exports touched an all-time high in the first half of the year amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy exported US$319.68 million worth of instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, in the January-June period, up 5.8 percent from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of interest in the Tokyo Summer Games is sharply lower in South Korea compared to past events, a survey showed Friday. According to a survey of 1,003 people aged 18 and older conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday to Thursday, only 32 percent of respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people who went to theaters in the first six months of the year dropped to a record low due to the protracted novel coronavirus pandemic, box-office data showed Friday. A total of 20 million moviegoers were recorded in the first half of 2021, down 38.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of South Koreans support President Moon Jae-in’s decision not to visit Japan for the opening of the Tokyo Olympics and summit talks, a poll showed Tuesday. In the R&Search survey of 1,095 people aged 18 and older, 65.5 percent of the respondents were in favor of Moon’s [...]