SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 artists in South Korea earn less than 1 million won (US$880) a month, well below the average for all trades, a government report said Thursday. According to the report by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the average annual income of domestic artist households was [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has shown that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may show symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and are more vulnerable to substance abuse when they become adults. The Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KACAP), commemorating the 4th ADHD Awareness Day on April [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 7 out 10 married women disagree with the traditional gender roles of breadwinning husbands and homemaker wives, although a majority of the women acknowledge that mothers are better at raising children, a survey said Thursday. A total of 10,630 married women aged 15 to 49 were polled for [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The daily amount of payments made electronically nearly doubled last year as a growing number of South Koreans are carrying out their financial transactions on smartphones, central bank data showed Wednesday. The daily average for electronic financial transactions came to a record 126.1 billion won (US$111.1 million) in 2018, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has argued that showing smartphones or televisions to a crying baby may delay the child’s ability to acquire a language. A research team led by Prof. Kim Sung-koo from Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital said that the comparison of two groups of children being exposed [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that most South Koreans think that apartment complexes need vegetable gardens. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) released the results of a survey on Monday conducted from April to July last year. According to the survey of 586 adults aged 19 or older, 95.6 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of postpartum care centers nationwide has fallen, a report said Monday, likely an indication of the falling birthrate. The Korea Institute of Child Care and Education put the number of such centers at 584 last year, compared to 610 in 2015. The data, collected through the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Loans and the loan default rate both rose for the self-employed last year, the regulator’s data showed Monday. The loans extended to the self-employed totaled 389.8 trillion won (US$342.83 billion) at the end of the third quarter last year, up 13.9 percent from the same period of the previous [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of South Koreans believe that the United States and North Korea will not reach an agreement on the issues of denuclearization and the lifting of economic sanctions, a poll released Sunday showed. According to the Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI) poll of 1,008 adults nationwide, 50 percent said [...]
SUWON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment (GIHE) released a report that suggests that fireworks that took place in various locations in China during national holidays were the cause of increased heavy metal concentrations in fine dust sweeping over Gyeonggi Province. The institute, using a real-time heavy metal analyzer [...]