SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. streaming giant Netflix Inc. is estimated to have brought in record-high paid subscriptions in South Korea last month, industry data showed Tuesday. An estimated 3.62 million viewers in South Korea presumably paid 51.4 billion won (US$45.9 million) for subscriptions in October, almost twofold from 26.2 billion won in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Salaried employees in South Korea work for 8.05 hours on average per work day and take an average of 8.25 days off per month, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,000 workers aged between 19 and 55 by local pollster Embrain Public, 811 respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans believe that there will be no major impact on inter-Korean relations when U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office early next year, a poll showed Monday. In the Realmeter survey of 500 people nationwide, aged 18 or older, conducted last Friday on prospects for Seoul-Pyongyang [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Coronavirus patients who used residential treatment centers run by the Seoul city government have expressed a relatively high level of satisfaction with their medical workers and facilities, a poll showed Saturday. The Seoul Health Foundation affiliated with the metropolitan government polled 412 people older than 19, who were treated [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. ranked fourth in global electrified vehicle sales last year, helped by increased exports, industry data showed Friday. Hyundai and Kia sold a combined 350,000 electrified models in global markets in 2019, up 25 percent from a year earlier, the Korea [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of babies born to multicultural families out of all childbirths in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2019 due to the country’s low birthrate, government data showed Thursday. The number of babies born to multicultural married couples came to 17,939 last year, down 0.8 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly nine in 10 South Koreans regard authorities’ restrictions on rallies and demonstrations not as a breach of freedom of expression but as an essential measure for the containment of the coronavirus pandemic, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 1,000 citizens conducted online by the Korea [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea soared to a new high in September due to the coronavirus pandemic and the Chuseok holiday, data showed Monday, The value of online transactions stood at 14.72 trillion won (US$12.9 billion) in the month, up 30.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea rose 9.8 percent in October from a year earlier due to strong demand for German cars, an industry association said Wednesday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles climbed to 24,257 units last month from 22,101 a year earlier despite the COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are estimated to have spent over 50 billion minutes on YouTube in September amid the pandemic, a 20 percent jump from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp said the video streaming application was the application most used by the country’s 33.7 million Android [...]