SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 25 percent of people who recently earned a Ph.D. in South Korea are unemployed, a recent survey revealed. However, the proportion of graduates who receive relatively high annual salaries has increased slightly. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, of 9,313 new Ph.D. holders in 2019, 25.2 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean office workers experience switch jobs 2.5 times on average during their career, a recent report has showed. Among East Asian countries, in particular, South Koreans had the highest willingness to work abroad. Global human resource consulting firm PersolKelly Consulting on Wednesday announced the results of its “APAC Workforce [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — About one in three South Korean students sees the Korean Peninsula as not peaceful, a government poll showed Tuesday, apparently reflecting chilled inter-Korean relations and stalemated denuclearization talks. According to the survey of 66,042 students at 598 elementary, middle and high schools across the country during the October-November period [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly two thirds of South Koreans do not trust the South Korean Protestant Church or its pastors, a recent study has revealed. The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 citizens, 63.9 percent of whom said they don’t trust the South Korean Protestant Church. Only 31.8 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A vast majority of South Korean office workers are worried that their company could go belly up, a recent survey has revealed. According to a survey of 315 workers by job portal CareerNet Corp., 75.9 percent of the respondents said they were worried about their employer going bankrupt. When [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Some eight out of ten foreigners around the world positively evaluated the image of South Korea. According to an online survey of 8,000 people in 16 countries, including South Korea, by the Korean Culture and Information Service operating under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 76.7 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every ten South Koreans continue to work after retirement, which is high compared to other developed countries. The Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) conducted an online survey in September last year of 1,000 people with voting rights in 16 countries, including South Korea, the [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of South Koreans were found to have experienced agricultural tourism, mainly to escape from everyday life and relax. The Rural Development Administration conducted a survey of 10,264 citizens over 15 years of age, 41.1 percent of whom said they had been on an agricultural tour program. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven in 10 Seoul citizens find South Korea “severely” unequal, a poll has suggested. According to the city government’s survey unveiled Monday, 26.5 percent said inequality in the society is “very severe” and 42.3 percent “severe.” As the areas with the worst inequality, 41.1 percent picked “building assets, such as real [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — About 98 percent of parents have their children receive after-school education, including from private tutors and cram schools, a survey showed Sunday. The survey about education last year, conducted by the state-run Korean Educational Development Institute, covered 4,000 men and women aged 18 to 73 in August and September. [...]