SEJONG, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of international marriages between a South Korean national and a foreigner rose 8.5 percent in 2018 from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday. There were 23,773 international marriages last year, up 1,856 from 2017, according to the data by Statistics Korea. It marked the second straight [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Female workers working more than 70 hours per week are 1.7 times more likely to suffer a miscarriage than those who work fewer than 50 hours a week. A research team led by Prof. Lee Jun-hee from Soonchunhyang University Hospital Seoul and Prof. Lee Wan-hyung from Gachon University Gil [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of workers in their 20s and 30s are stressed at office get-togethers, and do not enjoy drinking parties. According to a survey of about 800 office workers in their 20s and 30s conducted jointly by the job portal Incruit and part-time job search app Albacall, 70 percent [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of nonwage workers such as those self-employed in South Korea edged down 0.9 percent in 2019 from a year earlier amid a protracted economic slump, government data showed Tuesday. There were 6.79 million unsalaried workers as of August, down 62,000 from the same period in 2018, according [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Imported car sales in South Korea rose 6.2 percent on-year last month helped by new models, but Japanese brands still struggled feeling the pinch of a boycott against Japanese goods amid trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo, industry data showed Tuesday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles rose [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of private funds in South Korea has fallen sharply over the past three months in the wake of alleged trading irregularities and a liquidity crisis at a major player, data showed Tuesday. The country’s privately placed funds, including private equity funds and hedge funds, totaled 11,177 as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The monthly data usage by users of smartphones running on fifth-generation (5G) networks reached a record high in September, data showed Sunday amid the growing demand for mobile content. The combined amount of data used by South Korean users of 5G mobile devices reached 87,928 terabytes (TB), according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Very widely used mobile app services are based on so-called “platform labor,” or new forms of labor that are traded like products based on information and communication technology (ICT) platforms. However, the public’s awareness of platform labor is significantly low. According to a survey of 1,000 citizens conducted by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans staying at hotels and tourist inns in Japan halved in August from a year earlier, data showed Thursday, amid boycott campaign against Japanese products stemming from bitter feuds over trade and history. The Japan Tourism Agency said the number of South Koreans at such [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean men’s national football captain Son Heung-min has been named the country’s favorite athlete in a national survey released Thursday. Son topped the poll conducted by Gallup Korea on people’s favorite athletes. He earned 35 percent of support from 1,700 South Koreans aged 13 or older. The poll [...]