SEOUL, Korea, Mar 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Selecting a lunch menu for office workers after hard work in the morning is somewhat vexing. It is also true that the ever-rising lunch price is a burden to them. To be free from these burdens, more than half of them prefer bringing lunch boxes from home. According [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 13, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – March 14 is the “White Day,” a day observed only in East Asia including Japan, China, and Korea. On this day, girls or grown-up women who presented chocolate gifts to their boyfriends on Valentine’s Day on February 14 expect to receive gifts in return. A recent survey [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 11 (Korea Bizwire) – As many people are today using smartphones and tablet computers through which they can trade stocks with the tip of their fingers, the amount of stock traded through mobile devices has surpassed a 25-percent threshold, an eight-fold increase from only 3 percent as late as 2010. According to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The percentage of apartment homes in Seoul’s Gangnam (including the three districts of Gangnam, Seocho, and Songpa) whose “jeonse” (lump-sum deposit on a rental property) price is in excess of 70 percent of sale price has almost quintupled for the past one year. According to DoctorApt, a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – One of two working mothers grumbled that they had no time for themselves, a survey said. Especially 64.2 percent of those with preschool kids replied so. According to a survey conducted by a job portal, JobKorea, 62 percent of working moms answered that they needed their own [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers are much more sensitive than grown-ups to income differences with their peers. This uneasy social trend can be spotted by conversations with the local teens. Interviewed by a local media, a seventh grade student living Seoul, said, “You don’t make friends who live in nice — if not posh — apartments. Since [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Heavy Industries won on February 14 a deal to build a floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) ship for Malaysia’s state-run oil company Petronas at the cost of US$1.47 billion. Given most container ships cost about $200 million apiece, this is more than seven times more expensive. Including [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A while ago the Bank of Korea published a report on people’s tendency toward rarely opening up their wallets for fears of post-retirement livelihood. Then are Korean consumers saving more instead of spending? The reality is savings are falling as much as consumption. What’s going on here? According [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of ten college students will seek their parents’ support for their wedding preparation and 40 percent of them will get their support even after their marriage, a survey said. According to Noble Alba, a part-time job information site, which conducted the survey asking 647 university students, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Four out of five Korean teens possess smartphones and of all the functions they use mostly for chatting through mobile messengers services like KakaoTalk. Also, one out of four has had experience viewing adult contents through them. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family which conducted [...]