SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle-aged women who lack in conversation with their family members think of themselves as unhealthy, according to a new study. Prof. Kim Young-shik and researcher Kang Seo-young at Asan Medical Center released the results of their new study on Tuesday after a comprehensive analysis of the level of communication, [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor ministry said Tuesday some small business owners responded to steep hikes in the minimum wage by firing workers, in its first official statement about the impact of the recent wage raises on employment. Between November 2018 and April, the government conducted an in-depth interview survey on four [...]
DAEJEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Concentration levels of phytoncide in bamboo forests, while slightly lower than in cypress forests, are much higher than in pine forests, a recent study revealed. An analysis conducted by the Korea Forest Research Institute showed that the average phytoncide level in a bamboo forest in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The landscape of the tourism industry has changed since the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile crisis in 2017 that put a damper on Chinese tourist visits to South Korea. According to the Korea Tourism Organization on Saturday, China still remains at the top of last year’s 15.35 [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that 8 in 10 unmarried men and women were willing to have a relationship with a non-Korean. Matchmaking agency Duo Info Corp. conducted a survey of 408 unmarried men and women, specifically 197 men and 211 women, and released the results on Thursday. According [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Only one out of three businesses have created an environment where employees are free to apply for parental leave to take care of their children. According to a survey released by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Thursday, only 34.3 percent of workers responded that they were “free [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has shown that a lack of sleep can exacerbate the risk of disorders in the temporomandibular joint located in the jaw. A research team led by Prof. Shim Hye-young from the Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center analyzed the risk of a jaw joint disorder among [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 employees who work at large supermarkets or super supermarkets (SSMs) want to rest on holidays such as Lunar New Year’s Day and Chuseok, the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving. Rep. Bak Maeng-woo of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party reported on Wednesday that he and the [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sixteen percent of young South Korean students are at risk of smartphone or Internet addiction, a poll released by the government said Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,286,567 fourth, seventh and 10th graders by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 206,102 students, or 16 percent, were found [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in their 50s and older are the fastest-growing segment of YouTube users, having spent the most time on the video-sharing website of all age brackets, industry data showed Tuesday. People aged 50 or older spent a combined 10.1 billion minutes watching YouTube in April, compared with 5.1 [...]