SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese and Japanese tourists, who make up the biggest share among foreign tourists visiting the country, have differences in their preferences and behavior, a government survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey by the Korea National Tourism Organization, which is affiliated with the culture ministry, 79.1 percent of Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Men in managerial and specialized jobs in South Korea and Japan have a higher mortality rate than in Europe, a study found. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands published the study in the online edition of the Journal of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined time spent on the photo and video-sharing platform Instagram by South Korean Android users surged by 73 percent on-year in May, industry data showed Tuesday. They spent a total of 26 billion minutes using Instagram last month, compared with 15 billion minutes during the same period a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The average number of home auctions throughout South Korea has surpassed 5,000 cases over the last two months. According to GG Auction, a South Korean court auction firm, the number of auctions of residences throughout the entire country reached 5,261 cases last month, surpassing 5,000 for the second month [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, male students have better grades in mathematics than females. Taking out the environmental factor, however, gender differences disappear, according to a recent study. Lim Seul-ki, a PhD candidate at Sogang University and Asst. Prof. Lee Soo-hyung argued in a recent paper that South [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that teenagers in South Korea would prefer being celebrities or sports stars instead of traditionally sought-after jobs such as doctors and lawyers. A joint report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the Center for Social Welfare Research team of Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that up to 540,000 “platform economy” workers are engaged in a variety of delivery and chauffer services through digital platforms such as mobile apps. A platform economy worker refers to a person who provides services and earns income via an online media brokerage and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of families in South Korea are feeling less responsible for supporting their children until they are married. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), analyzing the change in views among married women on their responsibility of raising a child from 2003 to 2018, said [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign subscribers to South Korea’s state health insurance program numbered about 1 million in 2018 as more foreigners are staying here, data showed Friday. The number of foreign subscribers, including South Koreans living abroad, stood at 971,199 as of end-December last year, or 1.9 percent of the total subscribers [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 2 children in South Korea have experienced health issues caused by fine dust, and 3 out of 10 have missed official outdoor events, such as going to school or going on school trips, when fine dust levels were severely high. The Korea Institute for Health and [...]