SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean adults positively evaluate the Moon Jae-in government’s policy of making peace with North Korea, a poll showed Wednesday. Realmeter’s survey of 505 people older than 19 nationwide found that 52.2 percent gave a positive assessment of Moon’s peace policy for the Korean Peninsula. [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul still has a wide jobholder gender gap and more than half of its working citizens earn less than 3 million won (US$2,570) a month, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s annual survey, 76.2 percent of male citizens and 45.7 percent of female citizens had [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw a significant rise in used car exports in the first quarter of this year, with Libya becoming the largest importer of South Korean used cars. South Korea exported 107,321 used cars in the first quarter, which was a 42.9 percent jump from the same period last [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans prefer to travel with their families, a recent study has showed. Hana Tour Co., a South Korean travel agency, conducted a survey of 1,200 citizens, most of whom said they would like to travel with their family. The composition of family members, however, has been changing recently [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 80 percent of active sniffer dogs deployed by South Korea’s quarantine agency are cloned, data showed Monday, as activists express their concerns over potential animal abuse. According to the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, 42 of its 51 sniffer dogs were cloned from parent animals as of April, [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of marriage immigrants and naturalized South Koreans who have lived in South Korea for more than a decade has increased significantly from ten years ago. Although these people have been living in South Korea for a long time, their social networks have been found to be lacking, [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 9 percent of middle and high school students in South Korea had worked at a part-time job. Most had worked at restaurants or wedding halls. The average hourly pay was 7,785 won (US$6.69), rising over the past few years, while fewer middle and [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Video games, which were previously considered the sole domain of children and teenagers, have recently become sensational among people in their 30s and 40s due to the influence of the “retro trend boom.” According to an analysis of customer data conducted by E-Mart Inc. for three years from 2017 [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Cancer deaths have increased by 72 percent in the past decade, with lung cancer being most commonly diagnosed, followed by liver, stomach, pancreas, colon and breast cancer. According to the Korea Insurance Development Institute on Wednesday, the number of life insurance subscribers who died of cancer increased from 18,144 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The overtime hours average has been on a steady decline at South Korean companies affected by the mandatory 52-hour workweek, a government report said Tuesday. According to the report by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the average overtime hours per person at manufacturing companies with more than 300 [...]