SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that women are twice as vulnerable to smartphone addiction as men. The study was conducted by a mental health team lead by Dr. Kim Dae-jin from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul. The team conducted an online survey aimed at 4,854 adults aged [...]
SEJONG, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales in the online shopping business in South Korea have expanded more than 16-fold over the past 15 years on the back of the rapid development of e-commerce transactions, government data showed Thursday. A total of 53.9 trillion won (US$46.1 billion) worth of purchases were made online last year, [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 85 percent of South Korean people aged 60 or older watch TV every day, doing so almost twice as much as people aged less than 20, according to a survey released Thursday by a state-run think tank. The survey, conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has showed that 9 out of 10 Korean lawyers support a revision of the Korean legal system to allow for the implementation of punitive damages. Punitive damages refer to a policy in which defendants are obliged to pay a greater amount of damages when general compensatory damages [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Annual exports from South Korea’s healthcare businesses surpassed 10 trillion won for the first time last year, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Sunday. Overseas shipment of Korean medicines, medical equipment and cosmetics products totaled $8.83 billion, or 10.2 trillion won, in 2015, up 21 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that Korean high school students are more interested in public security, while Japanese students are more concerned with natural disasters. Chinese students were more drawn to food and food safety. Japan’s National Institution for Youth Education conducted a survey regarding safety issues among high [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey says many single women in Korea seek alcohol as their stress reliever. According to the study conducted by Seoul National University’s College of Nursing, out of 1,700 unmarried women aged 19 or older, 38 percent stated that they experience a high level of stress in their daily [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study found that the rate of increase for office rents in Seoul was the second-highest in Asia, among 19 major cities. According to a study conducted by major U.K. real estate consulting corporation Knight Frank, rents in Seoul during this year’s first quarter increased by 2.6 percent compared [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Although this year was supposed to mark the beginning of a ‘retirement in your 60s’ cultural shift, current workers have projected their own retirement age to be barely over 50. ‘Job Korea’, an employment portal website, conducted a survey on 1,405 employees of both genders with the question, ‘Considering the current [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that South Korean mothers send their kids to English classes before the children turn five years old on average. Yoon’s English School, a company that runs a chain of English language academies across the country, conducted a survey between May 25 and 29 with the participation [...]