SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of mobile games in South Korea soared to a record high in the first half of the year amid the coronavirus pandemic that has confined more people to their homes, industry data showed Monday. Combined sales of three app markets — Google’s Play Store for Android devices, Apple’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of hotels in South Korea more than doubled during the past seven years amid an influx of visitors from China, government data showed Monday. The number of hotels in the country stood at 1,050 as of the end of last year, up 53.7 percent from 683 in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Apartment lease contracts in the South Korean capital of Seoul sank to a nine-year low in July amid tighter rules, municipal data showed Monday. The number of apartment lease contracts, called “jeonse” here, stood at 6,304 in July, the lowest monthly level since data tracking began in 2011, according [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw the addition of 38 new public libraries nationwide last year thanks to the government’s efforts to enhance access to libraries in recent years. According to a recent statistical survey by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and its affiliated Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Two in five defectors who returned to the North lived in South Korea for less than three years, a lawmaker said Saturday, urging authorities to pay greater attention to the management of former North Koreans here. Rep. Lee Sang-min of the ruling Democratic Party, citing data obtained from the [...]
SEJONG, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of cigarettes in South Korea rose 3.8 percent on-year in the first half of this year, data showed Friday, thanks to robust sales of traditional cigarettes. South Korean smokers purchased 1.74 billion 20-cigarette packs in the January-June period, compared with 1.67 billion packs in the same period last [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Exports of South Korean-made passenger cars plunged 40.6 percent on-year in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged demand, data showed Friday. Local carmakers shipped passenger cars with a combined value of US$6.2 billion during the April-June period, according to the data compiled by the Korea Customs Service [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of damaged banknotes found in South Korea grew slightly from a year earlier in the first six months of the year, with some people trying to sanitize their money, apparently using the wrong methods, amid fears of the new coronavirus, central bank data showed Friday. In the [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Manufacturing jobs in South Korea decreased at the fastest rate in a decade last month as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh down the export-driven economy, government data showed Thursday. According to the labor ministry’s monthly report, the total number of workers on nonagricultural payrolls in June stood at [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — High school students in South Korea spent more time at school but less time in bed last year than other students at other levels, a report showed Thursday. The report by Statistics Korea indicated that high school students faced harsher daily life conditions amid fierce competition for universities. According [...]