SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 2 out of 3 Seoulites in their 20s and 30s believe South Korea is not an ideal country for them to live in, a survey showed Thursday. The Seoul Institute, a city-run think tank, said it polled 1,000 Seoul residents between the ages of 20 and 39 from [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans support replacing the current military draft with a volunteer system, a survey showed Sunday. According to the Gallup Korea poll, 43 percent of respondents were in favor of switching to the volunteer military system, while 42 percent were in favor of maintaining the [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Over half of South Koreans positively evaluated last week’s summit meetings between President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Joe Biden, a poll showed Wednesday. In the Realmeter poll of 2,004 adults conducted nationwide Monday and Tuesday, 56.3 percent said the Moon-Biden summit meetings went “well.” Of the positive reviews, [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1 in 3 young South Koreans picked the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest source of social anxiety last year, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey by Statistics Korea showed 32.2 percent of Koreans aged between 13 and 24 said they viewed the outbreak of the pandemic [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 4 Americans view denuclearization of North Korea as an “important” issue that should be resolved, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,000 American people by the Korea Economic Institute of America, a Washington-based think tank, 75 percent said it is “very important” or [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 childcare center teachers in South Korea believe the coronavirus pandemic has reduced language development opportunities for preschoolers, a poll showed Monday. In the poll of 709 teachers at national and public daycare centers in the greater Seoul area, 74.9 percent agreed with the view that children’s [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul citizens had more free time but engaged in fewer cultural activities last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed Monday. The average Seoulite had 3.6 hours of free time on weekdays and 6.5 hours on weekends, up 0.4 hour (12 percent) and 0.5 hour (8 percent), [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean students at high risk of addiction to smartphones and the internet increased last year on extended online classes at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a government survey showed Sunday. According to the annual survey of 1.27 million fourth, seventh and 10th graders nationwide by [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Older people were more likely to have suffered a decrease in income due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed Thursday. In the survey conducted on 16,244 workers in 537 professions from August to November, 35.8 percent said they earned less in 2020 due to the economic fallout from [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every 10 South Koreans support the idea of pardoning Lee Jae-yong, the jailed de facto leader of Samsung Group, a poll showed Saturday. According to the joint poll conducted on 1,003 people age 18 or over nationwide from Monday through Wednesday, 64 percent of [...]