SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign immigrants arriving in South Korea in a family unit has significantly increased in recent years, official data showed Thursday. According to a report by the Migration Research & Training Center, the number of family-related visas issued by the South Korean government for foreigners surged from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — As 2030 generation workers place importance on their own satisfaction and work-life balance, their desire to be promoted is also quite different from those in the older generations. According to a survey of 724 office workers in their 20s and 30s conducted by online job portal Saramin, 41.7 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been six months since 5G was commercialized, and many users are still not satisfied with the service. According to a survey of 180 5G users by three civic groups including the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, 76.6 percent said they were dissatisfied, including those who were very [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The income imbalance for singers and athletes is becoming serious. According to data submitted to Rep. Kim Doo-kwan from the National Tax Service, the annual total income of the top 28 earners, or one percent of the 2,758 who reported income as singers, was 136.5 billion won (US$117 million). [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2 million foreigners were registered as residents in South Korea as of November last year, bolstered by a growing number of those with permanent residency, government data showed Thursday. The number of foreign residents totaled 2,054,621 as of Nov. 1, 2018, up 10.4 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers in South Korea do not want seafood that is served for school meals, although they believe it to be nutritious and excellent. According to a survey of 1,000 middle and high school students nationwide conducted by the Korea Maritime Institute, 81.5 percent said fisheries products are excellent food [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A third of South Koreans were given prescription narcotics in the past one-year period, as more people received comprehensive medical checkups, government data showed Tuesday. More than 17.8 million people received drugs like propofol and zolpidem, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said, citing some 107 million pieces [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the number one cause of death among South Koreans between the ages of 10 and 30 is suicide. Experts are calling on the government to develop stronger countermeasures as it is more likely for younger South Koreans to resort to self-harm before deciding [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of temporary workers in South Korea has risen 13.1 percent on-year this year, with the percentage of such employment also increasing, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 7.48 million workers were nonregular workers, part-timers or outsourced laborers as of August 2019, up about 870,000 from a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — One third of South Koreans were found to skip breakfast, according to a recent study, as the ‘no-breakfast’ population has almost tripled over the last 20 years. According to data from the 2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey released on Sunday, the proportion of South Koreans who skip breakfast [...]