SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey revealed that 59 percent of Koreans were in agreement over the government’s plan to raise the cigarette prices. Gallup Korea recently held a survey on 1,000 adults older than 19 years of age, asking “What do you think about the plan to increase the price for a pack of cigarettes [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/VZyRjp) has announced the addition of Jain PharmaBiotech’s new report “Global Pain Therapeutics Report 2014: Drugs, Markets and Companies – The Latest Concepts of Pathomechanisms of Pain” to their offering. This report describes the latest concepts of pathomechanisms of pain as a basis for management [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Employees in emotional labor sectors like big-box retailers or department stores are critically exposed to human rights abuses such as rude talks, abusive words and blatant ignorance by the customers, according to a local survey. Meanwhile, the employers in the sectors tend to add much insult to the injury [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As Hollywood blockbusters, led by “Frozen” which gathered over 10 million moviegoers in Korea, successfully landed on the high-up of the box-office rankings one after another in the first half of this year, the admission number of Korean films consequently dropped to fall behind that of imports, for the [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the severely high unemployment rate, youths in their 20s are rushing to construction sites for part-time jobs, according to a recent survey. Meanwhile, the construction companies are filling the vacancies with mostly low-cost foreign workers. This is the cross section of the distorted labor market in Korea that [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study disproved the current negative remarks on young Korean women of their excessive dependency on men, who are often marked with a scarlet letter “Kimchi girl.” “Kimchi girl” is a derogatory webspeak word in Korea, used to indicate young Korean women who depend entirely on men of [...]
![[Stats] Foreign Books with No Check-out Record at National Assembly Library of Korea](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/No-Check-out-1.jpg "[Stats] Foreign Books with No Check-out Record at National Assembly Library of Korea")
Among the foreign books held by the National Assembly Library, approximately 70 percent have not been checked out. As a public library run by taxpayers’ money, it must figure out ways to maximize usage by conducting surveys and studies on customer demand. According to a report from the Budget Office of the National Assembly, the National [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a survey by the Federation of Korean Industries on the nation’s top-30 non-financial business groups asking about business conditions for the second half of 2014, most groups answered they would focus more on business risk management and strengthening of financial soundness rather than outward growth. Of the respondents, 76.6 [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the recession in the stock market, the number of securities firms will fall below the 60 mark soon, while the number of asset management and investment consulting firms is on the rise. According to the Financial Supervisory Service on July 6, as of March this year, there are 61 [...]
DUBLIN, IRELAND, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Research and Markets (http://bit.ly/1kygHKy) has announced the addition of the “Atomic Spectroscopy Market by Technology & by Application – Competitive Landscape – Global Forecasts & Trends to 2018″ report to their offering. The global atomic spectroscopy market was valued at an estimated $4.02 billion in 2013 and is [...]