SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Online job service Incruit found via an internally conducted analysis that job postings and applications for web masters and online mall masters had soared in the past five years. The number of posts searching for applicants to these positions was 505.8 percent more than in 2013. Other types of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade deficit in the tourism sector hit a new record high last year, data showed Wednesday, due largely to a drop in Chinese visitors and a growing number of South Koreans traveling abroad. The country’s tourism-related earnings came to US$13.32 billion in 2017, down 22.5 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 6 in 10 South Korean parents want their children to be employed in high-paying professions, a new report has revealed. The study concerning private education for infants polled a sample of 316 parents based in Seoul with children aged between 2 and 5, and discovered that 58.7 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading shipbuilders and one of its shipping firms have been mired in losses due to unsuccessful restructuring efforts, industry data showed Tuesday. The cumulative net loss of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a major South Korean shipbuilder, came to more than 7 trillion (US$6.5 billion) from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Young tourists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are most interested in tour programs featuring Korean pop content in South Korea, a report showed Sunday. According to the report conducted by local consulting firm Evermint Partners Co. and released by the Korea Tourism Organization, the so-called [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — About 46 percent of Seoul residents in their 20s and 30s identify as progressive, nearly three times those leaning conservative, a survey showed Saturday. Seoul Institute, which is funded by the city government, unveiled the results of its recent survey of 1,000 citizens in those age groups about their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – “Though bouts of morning sickness are normally indicative of a healthy pregnancy, severe cases can cause nutritional imbalances that interfere in the supply of folic acid, increasing the chances of deformed and low-birth weight newborns.” Dr. Han Jeong-yeol of Cheil General Hospital, who led a study into the effects [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A visit to South Korea’s heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was picked as the most popular tour destination among foreign visitors, a study showed Wednesday. According to the study by the Korea Tourism Organization, a half-day visit to the DMZ area was the most popular tour picked by foreigners [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A study conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government into the working conditions of franchise convenience store owners has found that almost 40 percent are not able to take even a single day off work each year. Including 951 owners, the study revealed that average working hour totals were extreme. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Online violence is most prevalent among teenage students in South Korea, a new survey has found. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) and the Korea Information Society Agency (NIA), teenage students were the biggest perpetrators as well as victims of online violence. The findings [...]