SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Married women typically want to have two children but give up on their plans because of the cost of child rearing, a report said Monday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs canvassed approximately 11,000 women nationwide aged 15 to 49 for the report. Results said women on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained the top country where women workers face low wages, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Monday. Data from 2017 showed that 35.3 percent of female workers in South Korea were being paid low wages. Employees who were getting less than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 South Koreans used the Internet last year, with Internet usage growing among senior people, a poll showed Sunday. According to the poll conducted on 59,970 people belonging to 25,000 households by the Ministry of Science and ICT in 2018, 91.5 percent of South Koreans used [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Phones used in homes and desktop personal computers (PCs) are being phased out as more people opt for mobile devices, a report by a local think tank showed Sunday. According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) that checked 9,332 people nationwide last year, home phone ownership stood [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that fine dust and ultrafine dust can be critical to the survival of respiratory patients. Higher fine dust levels typically result in more patients being hospitalized for various respiratory diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung cancer, and increased the death rate [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 90,000 South Koreans have visited the hospital in the last year due to a lack of vitamin D. Among age groups, women in their 50s were most vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency, which increases the risk of osteoporosis. The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) announced that 90,014 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans are in favor of changing the status of the March 1, 1919, independence movement against Japan’s colonial rule of Korea to a revolution, a poll showed Wednesday. In the poll of 500 adults nationwide conducted by Realmeter on Tuesday, 49.4 percent said they support [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans voted in favor of using atomic power, a survey showed Wednesday, amid the Moon Jae-in government’s nuclear phase-out policy. The survey was conducted on 1,000 people aged over 19 to study public opinion on the government’s nuclear policy, the Korea Nuclear Society (KNS) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Growth in income for the generation of workers who came into the job market after the 1997 Asian financial crisis is slower than in the past, which will hurt overall earnings during their lifetimes, a research report said Tuesday. The study by Shim Hye-jung, head of the income and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The portion of South Koreans who are opposed to homosexuality fell below 50 percent for the first time, a report showed Sunday, in an indication of Koreans’ growing openness to sexual minorities. In a 2018 poll of 8,000 Korean adults, 49 percent said that they cannot accept homosexuals, down [...]