SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of single households rises, more people tend to adopt pets. Of the cats, dogs, and other pet animals, a dominant share of them was imported from overseas. According to the Korean Customs Service, 85.5 percent of imported dogs came from China, followed by the [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Korean Job Seekers for Employment Tests](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/청년층-취업시험-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Korean Job Seekers for Employment Tests")
[Related Article] Samsung’s Dilemma in Continuing Paper-based Aptitude Test (Korea Bizwire, April 15) Samsung has long been one of the best companies to work for in Korea and this year was no different. Early in the morning on Sunday April 13, tens of thousands of young men and women woke up at dawn and went [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The so-called “thumb generation” takes home for their most preferred shopping place, according to a survey. According to Auction, an open market operator, which conducted the survey asking its 1,590 members last month, almost six out of ten respondents (58%) answered that they do mobile shopping “when [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey found that nine out of ten foreigner respondents said they wanted to date with Korean men and women. This is a sign that the Korean Wave in K-Pop, TV dramas, and computer games is gaining the hearts and minds of foreign audiences. Korea’s major matchmaking [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study showed that college graduates or college-enrolled job seekers suffer most from “hypersensitivity” among many symptoms of stress. Hypersensitivity is a symptom of stress which makes the sufferer to overreact to even tenuous stimulation due to destabilization of the nerve system. Korea’s online job search portal “Job Korea” [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/사교육비-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Monthly Expenditure on Private Education per Student")
[Related Article] Overly Complicated College Entrance Screening Leads to Strange Job Titles (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Despite the government’s constant threat of crackdown on illegal tutoring on college-bound students, the so-called “college entrance exam consulting” is still thriving. Often it is evolving in quite unusual ways. Some of them visit the student’s house just before the [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] South Korea’s Richest and Corresponding Assets](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/국내부자자산규모-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] South Korea’s Richest and Corresponding Assets")
[Related Article] How Much the Rich in Korea Spare to Spend (Korea Bizwire, April 11) An average individual from the upper crust of Korea spares 1 million won each month as surplus fund and most likely to spend it on wheels.On April 10, Visa Card came up with survey analysis of the top 20 percent rich [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/배달앱-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps")
[Related Article] War of Food Delivery Apps (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes.The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – An average individual from the upper crust of Korea spares 1 million won each month as surplus fund and most likely to spend it on wheels. On April 10, Visa Card came up with survey analysis of the top 20 percent rich people from 11 different countries, in [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1인당연간근로시간-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Annual Working Hours Per Capita")
[Related Article] Big Change ahead for S. Korea’s Labor Standards (Korea Bizwire, April 10) The discussion in the National Assembly surrounding cutting back on work hours is gradually converging on the introduction of a 52-hour workweek scheme.The subcommittee for labor-management-government negotiation for social issues under the National Assembly’s Environmental and Labor Committee held on April 7 [...]