SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A record number of drivers aged 65 or older in South Korea voluntarily gave up their licenses in the January-September period, the National Police Agency and the Road Traffic Authority said Thursday. The number of such elderly drivers came to 43,449 in the reported period, up 530.50 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are less supportive of unification with North Korea than last year, a survey showed Tuesday, amid the protracted impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization negotiations. According to the survey of 1,200 adults commissioned by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University, 53 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of teenagers making the extreme choice to end their own life before becoming adults is on the rise. According to data submitted by the Ministry of Education to Rep. Kim Hyun-ah, a total of 549 students have killed themselves over the past four years. When analyzing the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly three out of every 100 households in South Korea may be unable to repay their debt in case of a sudden change to their income or the value of their assets, central bank data showed Tuesday. According to the Bank of Korea (BOK), the number of households with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that people who are more friendly to their pets are less likely to suffer from depression. A joint research team from Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health and the College of Veterinary Medicine announced on Saturday the results of a survey conducted [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been confirmed that as many as 18,000 “full-time” landlords make money by renting out apartments full-time, without any other job. According to data received by Rep. Park Hong-keun from the National Tax Service, the number of individuals that live off of rental income, or so-called ‘landlords’, came [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors are the chief breadwinners for South Korea’s poorest households, with such family units generally having less than one member holding a steady job, data showed Saturday. According to the data from Statistics Korea, the average age of the chief breadwinners for households making up the bottom 20 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently released data shows that more than 3.5 million South Koreans have been treated for anxiety disorder over the past five years. Rep. Jang Jeong-sook reported that there were 3.4 million people who received medical treatment for anxiety disorder between 2014 and August 2019. The annual number of patients [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 800 cases of workplace harassment have been reported to the labor ministry since a new law aimed at preventing harassment in the workplace took effect in July, government data showed Friday. The data, submitted by the ministry to the Environment and Labor Committee at the National Assembly, revealed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ expenditures made in Japan moved down a whopping 60 percent in August from a year earlier amid the growing trade row between Seoul and Tokyo, which led to a boycott of Japanese products here, including traveling to the Asian neighbor, data showed Thursday. The number of transactions [...]