SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey revealed that tourists who go on walking tours in locations like the Jeju Olle Trail tend to be happier than others who do not. In a recent study conducted by the Korea Tourism Organization, 60 percent of walking tourists said they were happy. For non-walking tourists, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital information access among underprivileged people in South Korea improved in 2018 from the previous year, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 15,000 people nationwide, the digital information level among so-called digitally vulnerable groups stood at 68.9 percent of the average for all South Koreans last [...]
DEAJEON, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that humans are just as capable as other animals of finding north without a compass. The National Research Foundation of Korea in Daejeon announced on Sunday that a research team led by Prof. Chae Kwon-seok from Kyungpook National University confirmed that humans also have [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s direct purchases from foreign countries rose 31 percent in 2018 from a year earlier on rising consumer demand for cheaper and higher quality products, customs data showed Monday. South Korean shoppers bought a total of US$2.75 billion worth of foreign goods directly via overseas Internet shopping malls [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Married women typically want to have two children but give up on their plans because of the cost of child rearing, a report said Monday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs canvassed approximately 11,000 women nationwide aged 15 to 49 for the report. Results said women on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained the top country where women workers face low wages, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Monday. Data from 2017 showed that 35.3 percent of female workers in South Korea were being paid low wages. Employees who were getting less than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 South Koreans used the Internet last year, with Internet usage growing among senior people, a poll showed Sunday. According to the poll conducted on 59,970 people belonging to 25,000 households by the Ministry of Science and ICT in 2018, 91.5 percent of South Koreans used [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Phones used in homes and desktop personal computers (PCs) are being phased out as more people opt for mobile devices, a report by a local think tank showed Sunday. According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) that checked 9,332 people nationwide last year, home phone ownership stood [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that fine dust and ultrafine dust can be critical to the survival of respiratory patients. Higher fine dust levels typically result in more patients being hospitalized for various respiratory diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung cancer, and increased the death rate [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 90,000 South Koreans have visited the hospital in the last year due to a lack of vitamin D. Among age groups, women in their 50s were most vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency, which increases the risk of osteoporosis. The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) announced that 90,014 [...]