SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans prefer to travel with their families, a recent study has showed. Hana Tour Co., a South Korean travel agency, conducted a survey of 1,200 citizens, most of whom said they would like to travel with their family. The composition of family members, however, has been changing recently [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of marriage immigrants and naturalized South Koreans who have lived in South Korea for more than a decade has increased significantly from ten years ago. Although these people have been living in South Korea for a long time, their social networks have been found to be lacking, [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 9 percent of middle and high school students in South Korea had worked at a part-time job. Most had worked at restaurants or wedding halls. The average hourly pay was 7,785 won (US$6.69), rising over the past few years, while fewer middle and [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Video games, which were previously considered the sole domain of children and teenagers, have recently become sensational among people in their 30s and 40s due to the influence of the “retro trend boom.” According to an analysis of customer data conducted by E-Mart Inc. for three years from 2017 [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Cancer deaths have increased by 72 percent in the past decade, with lung cancer being most commonly diagnosed, followed by liver, stomach, pancreas, colon and breast cancer. According to the Korea Insurance Development Institute on Wednesday, the number of life insurance subscribers who died of cancer increased from 18,144 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The overtime hours average has been on a steady decline at South Korean companies affected by the mandatory 52-hour workweek, a government report said Tuesday. According to the report by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the average overtime hours per person at manufacturing companies with more than 300 [...]
DAEJEON, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team led by professor Song Hyun-joon from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed an electrocatalyst that turns more than 70 percent of carbon dioxide into ethylene without causing significant byproducts. Ethylene is one of the primary materials used in the petrochemical industry, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Primary metal industries, including steel manufacturing and cement, were the largest source of air pollution-causing fine particles among industries as of 2015, government data showed Thursday. The data, submitted by the environment ministry to ruling party lawmaker Shin Chang-hyun, said the industries topped the list of fine particle sources [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Single men and women in South Korea said that the worst way to break up is to ‘suddenly go out of touch.’ Duo Info Corp., a South Korean matchmaking service, conducted a survey of 426 single men and women asking them about how they broke up in past relationships, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies lag far behind their Asian peers in Japan, China and Taiwan in research and development investment, a local think tank said Wednesday. Thirteen Korean companies made it to the ranks of the world’s top 500 R&D companies last year. South Korea ranked ninth in terms of [...]