SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people subscribing to state employment insurance rose in April by the highest figure since before the pandemic, the labor ministry said Monday. According to the ministry, nearly 14.2 million people had employment insurance last month, up 422,000, or 3.1 percent, from April 2020. The increase was [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 70 percent of South Koreans believe that the use of a vaccination passport, which proves that a person has been fully vaccinated against the virus, will help the economy, a poll showed Sunday. The poll from the Federation of Korean Industries, a major business lobbying group here, showed [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Men and women in their 20s show the biggest difference in their levels of sexual harassment understanding and gender equality consciousness than other age groups, research released by the state human rights watchdog said Saturday. According to the report by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), men [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea continued to soar in March as more people bought goods via e-commerce platforms amid a non-contact consumption trend caused by the pandemic, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 15.9 trillion won (US$14.1 billion) in March, up 26.4 percent from [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea jumped 12 percent in April from a year earlier on robust sales of German cars, an industry association said Thursday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles climbed to 25,578 units last month from 22,945 a year ago despite the COVID-19 pandemic, [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of South Koreans said they were willing to get COVID-19 vaccine shots, but the number of those who said they would has dropped compared with in March, a survey showed Wednesday. Of 943 unvaccinated respondents, 61.4 percent said they were willing to be inoculated, while [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost nine in 10 young students in South Korea prefer in-person classes to online ones, despite risks of coronavirus infections, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey on 685 elementary, middle and high school students conducted from April 25 to Monday by a local teachers’ group, 87.1 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The average age of household heads in Seoul was 51.8 last year, up 2.9 years from five years ago, a survey by the city government showed Tuesday. The annual survey on citizens’ lives conducted from September-October also showed the average size of households shrank to 2.33 members from 2.64 [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean carmakers’ sales jumped 77 percent last month from a year earlier driven by robust overseas demand for SUVs amid the extended COVID-19 pandemic, industry data showed Monday. The five carmakers — Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Corp., GM Korea Co., Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and SsangYong Motor Co. [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans support taxing capital gains from the trading of cryptocurrencies, a poll showed Monday. The government plans to impose taxes on gains from investment in virtual assets starting next year. A poll by Realmeter showed 53.7 percent of respondents back the plan while 38.3 [...]