![[Kobiz Stats] Business Suspension among Top 3 Mobile Carriers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/이통사영업정지-영문1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Business Suspension among Top 3 Mobile Carriers")
[Related Article] Mobile Phone Retailers Demanding Compensation of Damages (Korea Bizwire, April 10) Korean mobile phone retailers gathered up and performed a symbolic ceremony in which they broke an ice containing a cell phone figurine to protest against the Korea government’s ongoing business suspension on mobile service providers. (see the full text of this news) Infographics [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Female job seekers in Korea seem to have had a tough time in the job market last year. In 2013, as the growth rate of employment of male workers has become nearly twice that of female workers at the top-ten conglomerates, the proportion of female employees has declined [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – According to an infographic put out by the Seoul Institute on after-retirement plans for Seoul citizens, the average age of retirement considered appropriate was 64.2 years of age. The data was based on a survey on 1,000 houses whose family heads are aged between 20 and 69. By age [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Smartphone Addiction Rate of Teens in Seoul](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/스마트폰중독-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Smartphone Addiction Rate of Teens in Seoul")
[Related Article] Greater Chances of Cyber-bullying among Smartphone-Dependent Teenagers (Korea Bizwire, April 9) The more teenagers are dependent on smartphones, the greater chances are that they will experience cyber-bullying. Also, more girls (22.8%) than boys (15.9%) and more senior students than juniors tend to be dependent on smartphones. (see the full text of this [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Volumes of Credit and Debit Cards Approved per Year](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/카드발급장수-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Volumes of Credit and Debit Cards Approved per Year")
[Related Article] Number of Credit Cards Issued Has Declined for the First Time (Korea Bizwire, April 9) Last year, the number of cards issued, both credit and debit, declined for the first time. According to the Bank of Korea’s “Payment and Settlement Report for 2013,” a total of 209.03 million cards were issued last year, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Year by year, fewer Koreans are regularly exercising and more Koreans become overweight. According to a health survey on some 22,000 adult men and women conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 38.2 percent of respondents said they do regular exercises like walking more [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Ratio of Experiencing Cyber-Bullying and Cyber-Bullied](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/사이버불링-영문.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Ratio of Experiencing Cyber-Bullying and Cyber-Bullied")
[Related Article] Greater Chances of Cyber-bullying among Smartphone-Dependent Teenagers (Korea Bizwire, April 9) The more teenagers are dependent on smartphones, the greater chances are that they will experience cyber-bullying. Also, more girls (22.8%) than boys (15.9%) and more senior students than juniors tend to be dependent on smartphones. (see the full text of this news) [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The more teenagers are dependent on smartphones, the higher chances are that they will experience cyber-bullying. Also, more girls (22.8%) than boys (15.9%) and more senior students than juniors tend to be dependent on smartphones. On April 8, the Seoul city government released data from a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, the number of cards issued, both credit and debit, declined for the first time. According to the Bank of Korea’s “Payment and Settlement Report for 2013,” a total of 209.03 million cards were issued last year, down 4.3 percent from the previous year’s 218.46 million. This [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Current Status of CNG Buses Running in Seoul](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/천연가스버스-영문-1.jpg "[Kobiz Stats] Current Status of CNG Buses Running in Seoul")
[Related Article] All City Buses in Seoul Will Go Green (Korea Bizwire, April 8) The Seoul city government has proudly announced that the replacement of 8,750 city buses in total from existing diesel buses to clean natural gas-fueled buses would be completed upon replacing 13 more this year. Since the project to replace diesel buses with [...]