SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 8 out of 10 South Koreans believe surveillance cameras should be installed in hospital operating rooms, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey conducted by Realmeter on Friday, 78.9 percent of respondents said they support installing closed-circuit (CC) TV cameras, with 48.8 percent showing strong support and [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 4 out of 10 South Korean companies plan to employ interns during the second half of the year mainly for the purpose of covering manpower shortages, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 416 companies, taken by recruiting platform Saramin, 44 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 8 out of 10 South Korean consumers have increased their online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic, a poll showed Monday. The survey of 1,000 local consumers, taken by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, showed 78.4 percent of the respondents saying their online purchases have risen since [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost all indoor sports facilities in South Korea suffered declines in sales due to COVID-19 and one in 10 reported sales decreases of over 80 percent, a survey showed Thursday. According to the poll of 988 owners of indoor sports facilities nationwide, conducted by civic and industry groups from [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 65 percent of teachers, parents and students were positive about more in-person learning in the second half, a survey showed Thursday, as the Ministry of Education gears up for bringing all children back to their classrooms full time. The survey conducted by the ministry on 1.65 million [...]
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 [...]