SEJONG, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of childbirths in South Korea fell at the fastest clip in more than two years in April on a low birthrate and late marriage trend, government data showed Thursday. About 35,300 babies were born in April, down 7.3 percent, or 2,800, from 38,100 a year earlier, extending [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Middle Eastern people who visit South Korea for medical treatments are most dissatisfied with the quality of Islamic foods provided by local hospitals, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey taken by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Muslim patients who visited South Korea last year gave local [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Male workers in their 40s were under the most work-related stress among all age and gender groups in South Korea, while work itself was the largest source of their stress in 2014, a report showed Wednesday. According to the report based on a survey of 195,666 workers who underwent [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The average ages of both South Korean men and women at the time of their first marriages have reached record highs, a market report said Tuesday, suggesting economic issues as a possible reason. According to the report from local matchmaking firm Duo, the average age of men who met [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – For young Koreans, finding a job is becoming harder than ever. Paradoxically, however, some Korean companies are finding it hard to recruit new employees. Saramin, one of Korea’s major recruiting platforms, conducted a survey of 779 small and medium-sized companies. Of the 664 companies that had planned to hire [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly a quarter of citizens in Seoul prefer traditional toilets to western style ones in public restrooms, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on 3,137 people in March 2015, 22.8 percent of the respondents said they prefer traditional latrines where [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly half of all South Koreans consume digital news on their smartphones, topping the list of 26 countries studied, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the Korea Press Foundation (KPF) that released the Korean version of the survey, “Digital News Report 2016,” by Reuters Institute for the Study of [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of registered passenger vehicles in South Korea is expected to top 20 million this month, heralding the advent of the “one household with two cars” era, data showed Tuesday. The number of registered passenger cars here came to 19,964,178 as of the end of May, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean television viewers are looking forward to watching football matches in this summer’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, according to a survey released Monday by a state-run ad agency. The survey, conducted by the Korea Broadcast Advertising Corp. (KOBACO) on people aged 10 through 59 [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The employment rate for women in their late 30s has reached its highest level in seven years, thanks to the widespread implementation of flextime scheduling. Flextime offers employees the freedom to choose their own workdays, and start and finish times. According to Statistics Korea Thursday, last month’s employment rate [...]