SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Women currently working at a domestic company that has more than 100 employees were found to be getting paid 33 percent less in salary compared to their male counterparts. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea announced these results yesterday after surveying 402 permanent male and female employees who [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a study, one in eight people buy cigarettes on impulse after viewing cigarette advertisements or cigarette packs on display at convenience stores. Moreover, the same study showed that 1.9 percent of non-smokers had purchased cigarettes on impulse. The study, carried out by Prof. Cho Seong-il and his [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of young South Koreans who have positive expectations for the national economy has grown sharply this year, a survey showed Tuesday. Some 48 percent of 313 South Korean regular workers who were born between 1983 and 1994 said the national economy will improve this year, auditing firm [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Petitions to the Blue House have been serving as an active communication channel between the public and the highest corridors of power since President Moon Jae-in took office last year. On May 14, the Blue House and National Information Society Agency (NIA) disclosed the big data analysis result of over 160,000 [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey voted Jeju Island as the top place that office workers would like to live in. According to JobKorea, a job searching portal and its subsidiary, Albamon, 22 percent of 1,462 working respondents said that Jeju was the “city of dreams” that they would like to live [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Air pollution was the No. 1 source of concern for South Koreans last year amid a worsening level of fine dust in the country, a report showed Monday. Air pollution scored 3.46 points out of 5 — the highest in the survey — among factors that cause concern to [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of South Koreans now think that the current system of inheriting a last name from one’s father is unjust. This is according to a survey carried out in March of this year by the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations. Of the 3,303 individuals surveyed, [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the British think South Korea’s tourism industry has great potential. Although awareness of the South Korean nation by the general public in U.K. is low, younger Brits have a favorable image of South Korea thanks to the nation’s high-tech industries and K-pop. This [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A clinical test has revealed that a smartphone application linked to a hospital used to manage daily habits helped to improve patients’ well-being. A team of doctors composed of Prof. Kim Jung-hun (otolaryngology), Prof. Jeong Se-yeong (family medicine), and Prof. Yu Su-yeong (medical information center) at the Seoul National [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a new survey, many consumers have heard of the “certified” eggs that follow guidelines of welfare practices for livestock, but most do not know of the policy or its mark. The certification system operated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs identifies farms that create [...]