SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 8 out of 10 South Koreans think colleges are too expensive and that tuition should be halved from the current level, a poll showed Wednesday. In the online poll of 1,000 people nationwide released by Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Korea, 83.9 percent of the respondents said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly more than half of all South Koreans do not support the idea of postponing the regular joint summertime military drills between Seoul and Washington, a poll showed Monday. In the poll of 500 people aged 18 and older nationwide conducted by Realmeter last Friday, 50.4 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Women hold 5.2 percent of executive positions at publicly listed companies in South Korea, the gender equality ministry said Thursday. According to a survey of 2,246 stock market-listed companies in the first quarter, only 1,668, or 5.2 percent, of the 32,005 executives were women, according to the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Football was the most-watched sport midway through the Tokyo Olympics among South Korean TV viewers, data showed Monday. The group round match of the South Korean men’s football team against Romania on July 25 marked a combined 33 percent in viewership, according to Nielson Korea. It was aired simultaneously [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 7 in 10 South Korean senior citizens want to keep working until the age of 73 amid a rise in life expectancy, a survey showed Tuesday. The survey by Statistics Korea showed 10 million, or 68.1 percent, of the 14.76 million South Koreans aged between 55 and 79, [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 66 percent of South Koreans support the idea of granting parole to Lee Jae-yong, the jailed de facto leader of Samsung Group, a poll showed Monday. In a poll of 500 people aged 18 and older nationwide conducted by Realmeter on Friday, 66.6 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of interest in the Tokyo Summer Games is sharply lower in South Korea compared to past events, a survey showed Friday. According to a survey of 1,003 people aged 18 and older conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday to Thursday, only 32 percent of respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of South Koreans support President Moon Jae-in’s decision not to visit Japan for the opening of the Tokyo Olympics and summit talks, a poll showed Tuesday. In the R&Search survey of 1,095 people aged 18 and older, 65.5 percent of the respondents were in favor of Moon’s [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Korean adults are in favor of some opposition lawmakers’ proposals to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, a poll showed Thursday. In the poll of 1,016 people nationwide over the age of 18, 48 percent said they agree with the proposed dissolution of [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean passport was found to be the third most effective one for travelers around the world, allowing its bearers to travel to 191 countries visa-free, data showed Sunday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy and Germany tied for third, only after Japan and Singapore, in the latest edition of the [...]