SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The most beautiful Korean woman would have the eyes of Kim Tae-hee, the nose of Han Ga-in and the lips of Song Hye-kyo according to 290 South Koreans. Pharmaceuticals company Hugel teamed up with members of university hospitals to survey 290 individuals, 72 of them medical professionals, and diclosed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean funds for stock investment in Asia’s emerging economies have posted the highest returns among local overseas equity investment funds this year, a market tracker said Wednesday. The average return of equity investment funds for Asian emerging markets came to 37.4 percent as of Monday, the biggest yield [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Charity donations by leading conglomerates have shrunk more than 13 percent in 2017 from last year despite business profits fattening their pockets, data showed Wednesday. Donation cuts by Samsung Group were the most striking, according to the data provided by corporate management tracker CEO Score. Samsung Electronics reduced its [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Jobs site Job Korea conducted a survey of 1,162 employed individuals in their 20s and 30s and found that the majority described themselves to be lacking in sufficient leisure time. Marital status had a minor effect on how “time-poor” the respondents were, as 74.2 percent of married individuals and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Big data analysis does not indicate any decline in the number of abortions over the last nine years, a report said Tuesday, contradicting claims by health authorities that it nearly halved during the period. Legalizing abortion has come under heated debate, started by a petition posted on the website [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Two consecutive days of exposure to fine dust can raise the risk of death by 0.5 percent, a joint study by researchers from South Korea, Japan and China said Tuesday. Published in Environment International, the study tracked the associations between mortality and extended exposure to microdust by analyzing data [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The e-Sports industry is expanding at a torrid pace. From 60.2 billion won in 2014, the industry is growing by more than 10 billion won every year. According to a study commissioned by the Korea Creative Content Agency and the culture ministry, last year’s growth was measured at 14.9 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shoppers are showing growing interest in Black Friday in the United States while losing interest in the local version of the sales extravaganza, an analysis of big data showed Monday. According to Daumsoft, which sorted through blogs, tweets and news on Black Friday from 2015 to this year, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea dropped in talent competitiveness for the second consecutive year in 2016, falling especially behind in motivating its workers, a report from the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) showed Sunday. The country ranked 39th out of 63 surveyed countries in the IMD World Talent Report 2017, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A new report has found nearly 8 in 10 South Korean internet users rely on web portals like Naver and Daum for their news. According to Digital News Report 2017 Korea, a report released by the Korea Press Foundation, most South Koreans visit web portals for news rather than [...]