SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 70 percent of South Koreans believe that the use of a vaccination passport, which proves that a person has been fully vaccinated against the virus, will help the economy, a poll showed Sunday. The poll from the Federation of Korean Industries, a major business lobbying group here, showed [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Men and women in their 20s show the biggest difference in their levels of sexual harassment understanding and gender equality consciousness than other age groups, research released by the state human rights watchdog said Saturday. According to the report by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), men [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of South Koreans said they were willing to get COVID-19 vaccine shots, but the number of those who said they would has dropped compared with in March, a survey showed Wednesday. Of 943 unvaccinated respondents, 61.4 percent said they were willing to be inoculated, while [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost nine in 10 young students in South Korea prefer in-person classes to online ones, despite risks of coronavirus infections, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey on 685 elementary, middle and high school students conducted from April 25 to Monday by a local teachers’ group, 87.1 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The average age of household heads in Seoul was 51.8 last year, up 2.9 years from five years ago, a survey by the city government showed Tuesday. The annual survey on citizens’ lives conducted from September-October also showed the average size of households shrank to 2.33 members from 2.64 [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans support taxing capital gains from the trading of cryptocurrencies, a poll showed Monday. The government plans to impose taxes on gains from investment in virtual assets starting next year. A poll by Realmeter showed 53.7 percent of respondents back the plan while 38.3 [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Cases of cyberbullying involving elementary to high school students increased sharply last year as the new coronavirus pandemic turned many classes online, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey released by the Blue Tree Foundation, cyberbullying accounted for 16.3 percent of all school bullying cases experienced by respondents [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of 10 South Korean young people think it is unnecessary to get married and have kids, a government survey showed Saturday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted the triennial poll on 7,100 people aged between 9 and 24 and 4,800 parental caregivers from November through [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1 in 3 South Korean households raised pets in 2020, a survey showed Thursday, with the number of pet dogs and cats here reaching 8.6 million. The number of households raising pets was estimated at 6.38 million in 2020, up 8 percent from the previous year’s 5.91 million, [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one out of three middle and high school students in South Korea mulled suicide over the past year due to academic burden, a survey showed Monday. In a poll of 5,669 middle and high school students conducted by the state-run National Youth Policy Institute from July to October [...]