SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of 10 foreigners living in South Korea are illegal aliens, government data showed Tuesday. According to the data released by the Ministry of Justice, 211,320, or 10.5 percent of the total number of foreigners living here as of end-January, are staying without a valid visa. The number [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea ranks among the lowest in terms of women’s economic empowerment, with its pay gap between men and women estimated to need more than 100 years to close if the current pace continues, an annual report said Tuesday. The Women In Work Index 2017 released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Almost three in 10 South Korean adults skip breakfast, with people in their 20s doing so more often, a survey said Friday, raising the need for improving the public’s eating habits. The survey on the status of the eating habits of the country’s adults, conducted by the Centers for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ calls for the renegotiation of a 2015 Seoul-Tokyo deal on Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II have been rising amid the rekindling of a row between the two countries over symbols of the victims, according to poll results released by Gallup Korea on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Frequent nighttime urination, or nocturia, is hindering Koreans’ sleep more than expected. A study by a team of urologists from the Hallym University Medical Center revealed that four in ten people, or 41.8 percent of the study subjects went to the bathroom at least once during their sleep, which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Business evaluation website CEO Score revealed Wednesday how quickly children from Korea’s top conglomerate families move up the ladder, taking an average of 4.9 years until they nab an executive title from when they start working – a significant fast-track forward given the fact that it typically takes roughly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Husbands are more satisfied with their marriages than wives in South Korea, a survey showed Thursday, indicating that married men’s involvement in household work is still insufficient. The survey of 476 married men and 576 married women, conducted between June and November last year, showed that 72.2 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has seen a rapid increase in the number of people going to see movies alone over the past five years, a market report showed Wednesday. The group increased to 13.3 percent of the total audience last year from 7.7 percent in 2012 and 10.7 percent in 2015, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2017 revealed that South Korean youth are losing hope in their very own economy, ranking fairly low among surveyed countries. The survey was based on 8,000 millennials from 30 countries born after 1982, with permanent jobs and at least a bachelor’s degree. It is the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The total value of South Korean stocks under foreign ownership has exceeded 500 trillion won (US$440 billion) for the first time on indications of a global economic recovery and improved earnings by some local giants, data showed Monday. Foreign investors owned 501.9 trillion won worth of shares here as [...]