SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners satisfaction over traditional Korean food, known as hansik in Korea, was the lowest in the neighboring country of Japan, poll showed Monday, amid frayed ties between the two countries over a number of diplomatic issues. Japanese people’s awareness of Korean food came at 32.8 percent, compared to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the worst air quality among a group of 35 mostly rich nations, data showed Sunday, posing a health threat to people in one of the world’s most densely populated countries. In South Korea, PM2.5 levels are 27.9 micrograms per cubic meter, the highest level in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Babies living closer to roads are at a higher risk of having bronchiolitis, a study showed Friday, indicating a correlation between traffic-related air pollution and infantile bronchiolitis and childhood asthma. Bronchiolitis in infants mostly affects those younger than 2 months old. Signs of severe bronchiolitis include retractions and can [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of beauty products for children rose last year, industry data showed Friday, as a growing number of girls are starting to wear makeup at an early age. The data provided by SK Planet Co., the operator of local e-commerce platform 11st, showed that sales of such products on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean investors have pulled about 40 trillion won (US$37.7 billion) out of money market funds (MMFs) over the past seven months as they sought higher returns in stock and property markets, data showed Friday. Outstanding MMFs totaled 99.3 trillion won as of Tuesday, compared with 138.8 trillion won [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Marriage is no longer considered a must in the minds of most students at postsecondary institutions, a survey has found A total of 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students at two- and four-year institutions and graduate schools nationwide participated in the survey, which was commissioned by the Campus Evangelization Network [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 40 percent of last year’s stock trading in the secondary KOSDAQ market was done on smartphones, gradually phasing out transactions through computers and telephones, data showed Thursday. A daily average turnover of 291.48 million shares, or 39.6 percent of the total, on the tech-laden KOSDAQ was generated over [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The poverty level among South Koreans in their 30s and 40s has risen on the back of growing household debt. According to a joint report on household financial assets released by Statistics Korea, the Financial Supervisory Service and the Bank of Korea, the poverty rate among those in their 30s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have become more unfavorable to migrant workers amid the prolonged economic slump, with many reluctant to accept such workers as members of the South Korean society, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted by the Seoul-based Overseas Koreans Foundation from July 31-Aug. 25, 61.1 percent [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people attending a stop smoking program at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Seoul rose this year from 2017 amid rising cigarette prices and the expansion of nonsmoking zones, a hospital official said Wednesday. As many as 26 people have applied for the stop smoking camp run by [...]