SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of ten immigrants in South Korea have experienced having their children rejected by schools. According to the Ministry of Justice, 10.4 percent of 643 foreign immigrants who participated in a survey said their children had been rejected by schools in the past. Among the respondents, 5.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate for young South Korean students swelled to 25 percent last year from 21.2 percent in 2014, marking the fifth straight annual increase, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. The overall health statistics of elementary, middle and high school students were also found to have deteriorated in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An independent research conducted on behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) showed Wednesday that the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics were a success. The IOC released on its website the findings by Publicis Sport & Entertainment, whose study in March 2018 surveyed 36,000 people, aged from 13 to 65, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of all doctors in South Korea were found to be suffering from traumatic disorders due to the excessive amount of stress they typically receive from overwork and a lack of sleep during their residency years. InterMD, an information sharing platform for doctors, conducted an online survey of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 63 percent of South Koreans have used banking and payment services via smartphones as a growing number are getting familiar with the tech device in their everyday lives, a central bank poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 2,597 adults, conducted by the Bank of Korea (BOK) last [...]
GOSEONG/YANGGU, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Internet cafes, called “PC bangs” in Korean, are the favorite place for rank-and-file soldiers to spend time outside their barracks after work on weekdays, according to a survey released today. On Feb. 1, the defense ministry allowed ordinary soldiers to go off base after work for four hours on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of unemployed moms in South Korea want to find work to better cover living and education-related expenses for family members, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 56.6 percent of the respondents said they want [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean job seekers picked Google Korea as the most sought-after multinational company to work for, followed by Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. According to Saramin, a South Korean online job search platform, 27 percent of 1,194 job seekers chose Google Korea as their most preferred employer. Starbucks Coffee Korea [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly six in 10 married women in South Korea think they should provide financial support for their offspring until graduation from college, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey of 11,205 married women, 59.2 percent of the respondents said they think it appropriate to financially support their children [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans consider positively the possibility of improvement in North Korea’s human rights situation, a recent survey showed Thursday. The survey conducted on 1,000 adults late last year showed that 65 percent of the respondents were positive about a possible improvement, according to the Database Center [...]