SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans spend an average 100 minutes commuting to and from work every day, or two hours in the case of Seoul residents, a survey said Monday. Job Korea, an Internet portal for employment, recently asked 820 men and women on their commuting patterns, and found they spend 101.1 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women tend to consider themselves chubbier than they actually are while men are inclined to think the opposite, a survey showed Thursday. About 20 percent, or 5,002 women, of the 25,281 women polled said they are overweight, although they actually have normal body weight, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle-aged South Koreans want to work longer and believe they need about half of their present salaries to enjoy a stable life after retirement, a local business lobby said Wednesday. In a survey of 1,136 Koreans aged 40 or older, the Federation of Korean Industries’ Center for Large and [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Infracore Co., South Korea’s top construction equipment maker, is witnessing robust sales in China’s excavator market as the world’s No. 2 economy increased spending on infrastructure, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the data provided by KB Securities, a total of 62,617 excavators were sold in China in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating edged up again last week due in part to his stern response to North Korea’s missile launch and brisk diplomacy to rein in the provocative state, a survey indicated Monday. In the Realmeter survey conducted from Monday to Friday, Moon’s rating was tallied at [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans generally have a more severe perception of environmental pollution than their counterparts in China and Japan, a study said Thursday. According to the study by a research team from the University of Utah, South Koreans gave 2.67 points on air pollution on a scale of one to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean manufacturers’ business sentiment reached the highest in over two years, but pessimism still outweighed optimism overall, a survey showed Wednesday. A survey of some 2,200 manufacturing firms put the business sentiment index (BSI) at 94 in the third quarter, up five points from the second quarter but [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will not undergo a sharp drop in consumption despite the ever-rising household debt, a private think tank said Monday, citing growth in property and financial asset value. Households where the head of the family was over 55 have witnessed a 94.51 percent rise in income and 78.32 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of ten low-income, middle-aged and elderly people between the ages of 38 and 63 will likely face an uncertain financial future after retirement without a private pension or retirement pension, let alone the national pension, even after they turn 65. This forecast is based on an audit [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly three in 10 South Korean office workers feel alienated at the workplace due to their academic background, a poll said Friday. Top online job search portal JobKorea said its recent survey of 352 office employees showed that 33.8 percent of the respondents have felt a sense of alienation [...]