SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s business community on Tuesday expressed concern about additional costs stemming from a looming reduction in a weekly working hours. The move came after the National Assembly’s environment and labor committee passed a bill aimed at shortening maximum statutory working hours to 52 hours a week from the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A report on online advertising trends in 2017 published by the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) has revealed that 89 percent of 2,000 survey participants were willing to sit through advertisements if it meant they would gain access to free content. Only 11 percent responded that they would [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 6 in 10 South Korean parents want their children to be employed in high-paying professions, a new report has revealed. The study concerning private education for infants polled a sample of 316 parents based in Seoul with children aged between 2 and 5, and discovered that 58.7 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Young tourists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are most interested in tour programs featuring Korean pop content in South Korea, a report showed Sunday. According to the report conducted by local consulting firm Evermint Partners Co. and released by the Korea Tourism Organization, the so-called [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — About 46 percent of Seoul residents in their 20s and 30s identify as progressive, nearly three times those leaning conservative, a survey showed Saturday. Seoul Institute, which is funded by the city government, unveiled the results of its recent survey of 1,000 citizens in those age groups about their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – “Though bouts of morning sickness are normally indicative of a healthy pregnancy, severe cases can cause nutritional imbalances that interfere in the supply of folic acid, increasing the chances of deformed and low-birth weight newborns.” Dr. Han Jeong-yeol of Cheil General Hospital, who led a study into the effects [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A visit to South Korea’s heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was picked as the most popular tour destination among foreign visitors, a study showed Wednesday. According to the study by the Korea Tourism Organization, a half-day visit to the DMZ area was the most popular tour picked by foreigners [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean women in their 20s and 30s are increasingly leaving their hometowns in local provinces for jobs in Seoul and other major cities, a local think tank said Sunday. In its report on young women’s jobs, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) found that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of nine women working in the film industry have been on the receiving end of undesired sexual overtures, and one out of five have either been touched without their consent or coerced into touching another. Documents from the office of politician Yoo Seong-yeop on February 7 revealed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military launched helicopter gunship attacks on civilians protesting against the junta of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980, a crime against humanity tantamount to a massacre, a government committee said Wednesday. During the Gwangju uprising, known as the Gwangju Democratization Movement, the Army fired shots toward citizens from 500MD [...]