SEOUL, Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Six in 10 South Koreans have a negative viewpoint of China’s influence on their country, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the poll of 758 adult South Koreans organized jointly by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and several foreign institutions early this year, 60 percent negatively evaluated [...]
GWANGJU, Jun. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists successfully created an artificial brain-like three-dimensional neural structure, a local university said Wednesday, a finding that may contribute to studies in various brain diseases including Alzheimer’s. The team led by Yoon Myung-han at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in collaboration [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A report released Monday by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training has revealed that 29 percent of employees in South Korea have experienced sexual harassment at work in the past six months. According to the report, based on a survey of 3,000 employees from 15 industry [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A new report says the South Korea capital of Seoul has much worse income inequality than any other place in the country, with one in eight adolescents doing literally nothing. According to the 2015 report on Seoul’s social welfare by the Seoul Institute released yesterday, the top 10 percent in [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean salaried workers spend nearly 70 percent of their monthly income on average, according to a new report from Nielsen Korea. The newly published Nielsen report, which was conducted with the participation of 1,000 individuals aged between 19 and 70 last month, revealed South Koreans spend on average 67 [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting a new business in South Korea requires an average 200 million won (US$178,491) in starting money, and it takes about four years to break even, a stage that more than 60 percent of the startups don’t reach because they are forced to close before then, a report said [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans preferred to buy expensive or low-priced imported vehicles in the January-April period, industry data showed Wednesday. In the four-month period, sales of imported vehicles priced at less than 30 million won (US$27,000) jumped 81 percent to 2,960 units from a year earlier, numbers released by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign tourists to South Korea fell 27 percent in April from a year earlier as demand from China fell dramatically, the country’s tourism agency said Monday. Last month, a total of 1.07 million foreigners visited the country. Chinese travelers plunged 67 percent year-over-year to 227,811, according [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of 7 temporary workers have experienced depression, almost twice as high as those holding regular positions, a study showed Tuesday. The prevalence for depression was 13.1 percent among irregular workers, whose job conditions are far less favorable than for permanent workers and have to constantly worry about [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10 percent of full-time workers in South Korea consider themselves as nonregular employees because of poor working conditions, a report said Monday. According to the report by the Korea Labor Institute, 10.7 percent of South Korea’s regular workers believe they are temporary employees owing to long work [...]