SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The wage divide in South Korea widened in the first half of the year amid the prolonged pandemic, with salaries of internet service firms rising sharply and those of tour agencies plunging, a study showed Sunday. According to report by Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI), monthly pay of workers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Three quarters of South Koreans agree with the need to shift to the “living with COVID-19″ scheme, a poll said Friday, as the government is moving to phase out coronavirus restrictions under the new policy next month. According to the survey conducted early this month on 1,083 people aged [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every 10 American adults believe the United States should get involved when and if there is an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, a survey showed Thursday. In an annual survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 63 percent of respondents said they would [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 44 percent of South Koreans think that reunification with North Korea is necessary, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the poll of 1,200 adults by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at Seoul National University, 44.6 percent replied that unification is necessary, recording the lowest percentage [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans agree on the need to declare a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War, as proposed by President Moon Jae-in, a survey showed Wednesday. According to survey of 1,000 adults by the National Unification Advisory Council on Sept. 24 and 25, 67.8 percent said [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teenagers committed fewer physical assault crimes but more sex offenses and fraud last year, a judicial report showed Wednesday. According to the 2021 juridical yearbook published by the National Court Administration, the total number of juvenile protection cases was 38,590 in 2020, up 2,014, or 5.5 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — About 73.8 percent of South Koreans have unfavorable views of China, up 14.4 percentage points from last year, a survey showed Tuesday, with many of the respondents citing Beijing’s lack of respect for Seoul. According to the survey of 1,000 adults conducted by the East Asia Institute and Genron [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans are in favor of a cautious approach to the issue of COVID-19 vaccinations for teenagers aged between 12 and 17, a poll showed Monday. In the poll of 1,006 people aged 18 and above conducted by the Korea Society Opinion Institute on Friday and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s listed companies are likely to see their earnings spike nearly 50 percent in the third quarter on brisk exports, a market tracker said Thursday. The combined operating income of 246 listed firms is expected to reach 59.6 trillion won (US$50.6 billion) for the July-September period, up about [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has larger class sizes and lower employment rates among the highly educated than Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) averages, the education ministry said Friday. According to the latest edition of the OECD’s “Education at a Glance,” released by the Ministry of Education, elementary and middle [...]