SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of every two college students believe job market conditions have worsened this year, while more than half of would-be jobseekers said they wanted to work for a large firm or a public enterprise, a survey showed Monday. In the survey conducted by the Federation of Korean Industries [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey by Gallup Korea, 74 percent of Korean adults (1,018 participants) were willing to allow abortion if necessary. Only 21 percent said the practice must be more strictly controlled, and 5 percent reserved their opinion. The three-day survey study began on Tuesday, the same day [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean exports to China fell 9 percent on year last month, marking the 15th straight month of decline, data showed Friday, spawning worries that the country’s overseas shipments to the neighboring country may not recover any time soon. Shipments to China stood at US$10.96 billion in September, compared [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Six residency programs, including urology and cardiothoraic surgery, have failed to meet 70 percent of their enrollment quota for medical students this year, a report showed Thursday, raising the need for more incentives to attract students to the less popular residency programs. No medical student applied for the tuberculosis [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales at South Korea’s duty-free stores rose 36.4 percent in the first nine months of this year from a year earlier on increased buying by foreign tourists, especially Chinese, data showed Thursday. Sales at 50 duty-free stores nationwide came to 8.93 trillion won (US$7.9 billion) in the January-September period, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of 10 senior citizens have had thoughts about attempting suicide in the past year, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) on 853 people aged over 65, 10.3 percent said they have felt an impulse [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The opinion that a regulation free zone should be implemented in Korea has been proposed as the global service market for commercial drones is now estimated to be 144.8 trillion KRW. According to the report “Current Status of Commercial Drones and the Policy to Deregulate the Operation” proposed by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korea’s casual employees with no guaranteed hours of work reached a five-year high in the third quarter of this year, government data showed Monday, due to a rise in time-selective jobs amid a prolonged economic slump. The number of employees who work for one hour [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Shares held by foreign investors at South Korea’s top 30 listed firm have exceeded 315 trillion won (US$278 billion), data showed Sunday. According to the Financial Supervisory Service data submitted to the National Assembly, shares held by foreign investors were 67 percent of the total share ownership as of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – China was the biggest buyer of South Korean beauty products, taking up almost half of the country’s cosmetics sold overseas last year, data showed Thursday. According to the data submitted by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute to the National Assembly, China accounted for 41.1 percent of South Korea’s [...]