SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With temperatures once again soaring above their yearly averages, a report released by medical experts says that one out of seven mental patients ending up up in the emergency room is typically affected by the heat. In addition, one out of three patients hospitalized for anxiety attacks were also [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, families in the highest income bracket spent 27 times more money on private lessons for their children than those from lower income backgrounds. The survey found that income earners in households belonging to the top 20 percent spent 242,600 won on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Girls are twice as prone to smartphone addiction than boys, likely because they use more social networking and messaging services, according to research results released Tuesday. The conclusions of a study team from Ewha Womans University in Seoul were that students who were female, consumed alcohol, had lower academic [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Air traffic controllers work to ensure the safe arrival and departure of aircraft. As even the slightest mistake can lead to a catastrophe, it’s a job that requires workers to be in top notch psychological health. The Air Traffic Management Office, which overlooks the welfare of air traffic controllers, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans gave an average score of 6.4 on a 0 to 10 scale for the level of satisfaction with their quality life, a government survey showed Monday. Hankook Research conducted the inaugural survey from May 15-21 after being commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 1,500 adult [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The actual smoking rate among women is likely to be nearly triple the official count of 6.4 percent, due to women’s underreporting, a health professor said in a report Monday. The smoking rate was measured at 40.7 percent for men and 6.4 percent for women in 2016. According to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s proportion of employed older seniors was the highest among countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but that of young people remained at the bottom due to the country’s low social safety net and the tightened job market, a report showed Saturday. According to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea exported cultural content worth more than US$6 billion in 2016, government data showed Friday. The survey on “Content Industry Statistics” released by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism showed that exports rose 6.1 percent from the previous year to US$6.008 billion in 2016, a strong performance [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey by a job search portal found that more than half of Internet users who get their news from portal websites are “lurkers,” preferring to only read content rather than post comments or participate in discussions. According to the survey by Incruit that questioned 3,414 adults on “Internet [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Job portal Alba (www.alba.co.kr) announced the results of a survey of 1,648 young people in their teens and 20s on self-esteem. The portal targets a mostly younger population seeking part-time jobs. According to the survey, nearly half of the respondents (47.9 percent) said that they had “low” or “very [...]