SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Large companies have been found to be more dependent on indirect employment than their smaller counterparts, a government report said Thursday. According to the report by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the average ratio of indirect employment at 815 large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees was 20.9 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey found that 33.5 percent of infants aged 0 to 5 had to wait before finding a spot at a daycare center or kindergarten. According to a survey conducted by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education and released Wednesday, 33.5 percent of those surveyed had experience waiting [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In the 12 months since new legislation on life-sustaining treatment came into effect, the percentage of patients deciding to suspend or abort life-sustaining treatment has increased by more than 29 times. A research team led by Prof. Heo Dae-seok at Seoul National University Hospital announced on Tuesday the results [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of ten women in households with children under the age of 6 have experienced career breaks in the process of giving birth and raising children, a survey showed. Among all households surveyed, 40.3 percent had women quit their job to give birth and raise their children, a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A husband who indiscriminately assaulted his Vietnamese wife in front of his young child for her poor Korean is causing a public uproar. In the midst of the upheaval, statistics show that 4 out of every 10 married migrant women are suffering from domestic violence such as the recent [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea was the world’s No. 2 heated tobacco market last year, and its growth will gather pace down the road, an industry tracker said Tuesday. The size of South Korea’s heat-not-burn electronic cigarette market reached US$1.67 billion last year, rising sharply from $453 million tallied in 2017, according [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long organ transplant waiting period has resulted in the deaths of 5.2 people per day in 2018, up twofold from eight years earlier, a state-run health agency said Tuesday. The development is causing a sharp increase in people waiting to get a transplant and a drop in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 8 out of 10 people who help take care of toddlers at home are their grandparents, mostly from their mother’s side. More than half of them are known to take care of the babies without any form of financial compensation. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people who visited the four main royal palaces and Jongmyo Shrine in Seoul surpassed the 5 million mark in the first half of the year for the first time in three years, the cultural authorities said Monday. The four palaces from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) are [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that 7 in 10 South Koreans are sick of various anniversaries such as Valentine’s Day and Pepero Day. According to a survey of 1,000 men and women aged between 13 to 59 nationwide by local research firm Embrain, 69.6 percent of respondents said they [...]