WASHINGTON, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States’ approval rating in South Korea jumped at one of the steepest rates among Asian countries in 2021, a poll showed Friday. The approval rating of U.S. leadership in South Korea climbed to 59 percent last year from 30 percent a year earlier, according to Gallup. The increase [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of call center workers have thought about taking their own lives due to poor labor conditions and extreme emotional labor, a state human rights watchdog survey showed Wednesday. In the survey of 1,996 call center people conducted by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea from August [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 44 percent support the idea, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 1,004 adults, conducted by pollster Embrain Public on Sunday and Monday, 51.9 [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly three in 10 South Korean exporting companies have seen their financial situation worsen this year due to the coronavirus pandemic and other negatives, a poll showed Monday. The survey on 102 manufacturing exporters out of the country’s top 1,000 firms by sales showed 31.4 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty-five percent of South Koreans expect President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will do a good job after taking office, a survey showed Friday, though his predecessors had approval ratings of about 80 percent around the same time after the election. The Gallup Korea survey of 1,000 adults conducted between Tuesday and [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 7 in 10 foreign buyers think that South Korea’s national brand is having a positive impact on their purchases of products from Asia’s fourth-largest economy, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey of 213 foreign buyers, 72.9 percent of the respondents replied that their imports of South [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of professional baseball in South Korea is in decline, especially among people in their 20s, the exact demographic that teams are trying to attract, a national poll showed Wednesday. Gallup Korea released results of its survey of 1,004 South Koreans aged 18 or older from March 15-17. [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 44 percent support the idea, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 500 adults, conducted by pollster Realmeter on Tuesday, 53.7 percent said [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 58 percent of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 33 percent support the idea, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the poll of 1,018 adults, conducted by pollster Mediatomato on Saturday and Sunday, 58.1 [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked 59th among 146 countries in a U.N.-sponsored world happiness index. The Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the United Nations announced the 2022 World Happiness Report on Friday (local time). Finland topped the list for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland. South Korea [...]