SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea bizwire) — The number of foreign faculties and research institutes that provide Korean studies and language courses has nearly doubled in a decade, owing to the country’s growing economic power, the Korean Wave and financial support, a state-financed public diplomacy organization here said Tuesday. “The number of overseas organizations running Korean [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of Vietnamese agricultural and livestock products jumped 34 percent two years after the two nations’ bilateral free trade deal came into force, data showed Sunday. Two-way trade between the two countries has risen since the deal went into effect in December 2015, making Vietnam the fourth-largest [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Non-permanent contract workers are excluded from a number of fringe benefits given to regular employees, disadvantaging them in pay and vacation days, government data showed Thursday. Only 31.7 percent of contracted workers were given paid vacations as of August last year, according to an inspection of the economically active [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s deficit in kimchi trade reached US$47.28 million last year, up 11 percent from the year before, as cheap products from China flooded in, customs office statistics showed Wednesday. Last year’s deficit is the largest since the Korea Customs Service began to track data in 2000. Data showed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean public servants on around-the-clock duties, such as police and customs officials, work about 1,000 hours more a year than public workers in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Personnel and Management’s survey, government [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – An analysis of the dietary history of South Koreans reveals an excessive intake of sugary drinks and processed meats and too little consumption of nuts, milk and vegetables. On January 15 the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) published the results of a study into the diets [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The growth of regular workers in South Korea slowed to the lowest rate in 15 years in 2017, amid ongoing restructuring efforts in the shipbuilding industry, government data showed Monday. The number of regular workers rose 2.8 percent to 13.3 million last year from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 3 out of 10 adolescents access Internet sites with obscene content using mobile gadgets, a survey showed Friday. About 27 percent of those in their teens visited such sites, according to the survey of 10,000 people conducted by consulting firm Beyond The Research at the request of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Three in 10 people diagnosed in the early stages of diabetes or high blood pressure develop the diseases within 10 years, a government report showed Tuesday. According to the report by the National Health Insurance Service, 31.3 percent of the people who were diagnosed in the early stages actually [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the 557 public elementary schools in Seoul, 34 have less than 50 new pupils starting first grade this year (the school year begins in what would be considered the spring term in most English-speaking countries). Other primary schools throughout the city, meanwhile, have prospective first grade classes of [...]