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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Faced with a desolate job market, the response from almost 750,000 young South Koreans has been to drop out of the race completely. In contrast, over 1 million are preparing themselves for better quality employment by studying for placement exams. The number of NEET (not in education, employment or [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people visiting ski resorts around Seoul decreased this year due a sharp drop in temperatures, resort operators said Monday. According to the Vivaldi Park ski resort in Hongcheon, the number of visitors in January decreased 14.3 percent compared to the first month of 2017. Yongpyeong Resort, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean women in their 20s and 30s are increasingly leaving their hometowns in local provinces for jobs in Seoul and other major cities, a local think tank said Sunday. In its report on young women’s jobs, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) found that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s trade surplus with the United States dropped 17 percent on-year in 2017, despite the fact that no changes have yet been made to the free trade pact that Washington claims unfairly favors Seoul, market watchers said Sunday, citing official data. Observers said trade numbers released by the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Game content was the biggest contributor to South Korea’s overall content exports last year, helped by the spread of smartphones from which games can be downloaded and played, a local content agency said Sunday. South Korea exported 4.1 trillion won (US$3.77 billion) worth of game content last year, accounting [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean toddlers sleep late and wake up early compared with their peers in other countries, with 6 out of 10 going to bed after 10 p.m., a study showed Friday. According to the study conducted by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Institute, South Korean preschoolers slept [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of nine women working in the film industry have been on the receiving end of undesired sexual overtures, and one out of five have either been touched without their consent or coerced into touching another. Documents from the office of politician Yoo Seong-yeop on February 7 revealed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of users accessing cryptocurrency apps has shrunk for a second straight week, a possible reflection of Bitcoin’s cratering value over the past few weeks. App market research firm Wiseapp said on February 6 that an analysis of 23,000 Android smartphone users’ habits over a 14-week period (from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military launched helicopter gunship attacks on civilians protesting against the junta of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980, a crime against humanity tantamount to a massacre, a government committee said Wednesday. During the Gwangju uprising, known as the Gwangju Democratization Movement, the Army fired shots toward citizens from 500MD [...]